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Unsent letters, reckless bias for action, and rhub-apple frangipane crostata
Sam Kahn selects his top Substack reads this week
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Sam Kahn
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Year of Orwell, a mysterious mountain kingdom, and the mind-bending effects of getting hench
This week’s digest was curated by Helen Lewis, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Bluestocking, a weekly roundup of links and mini-essays…
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Feats of athleticism, a tortured poet’s publicist, and notes on gatekeeping
Sports writer Madeline Hill selects her top Substack reads
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Madeline Hill
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Swiftology on breakups, Yorkshire peat bogs, and the history of Ghana’s bag for life
 • Alice Vincent, Charlotte Runcie, and In Haste
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Phones and loneliness, early tennis retirement, and ‘two-parent privilege’
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Healing spring, the origin of human cooperation, and herbs to make you feel alive
 • Maya C. Popa
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Tim Mak is creating a new kind of war correspondence
 • Clyde Rathbone and Tim Mak
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Look what you made us do
 • Sophia Efthimiatou
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Posh grumbles, letting your business die, and how to hire a line cook
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Focus on food: Breaking up with perfectionist cooking, lemon-garlic-oil season, and Boston cream pudding cake
Pastry artist Paris Starn and chef Pierce Abernathy select their top Substack reads
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Pierce Abernathy
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paris starn
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Swiftology on breakups, Yorkshire peat bogs, and the history of Ghana’s bag for life
This week’s digest is guest edited by the creators of In Haste, a literary magazine and podcast about how books get written, from authors Alice Vincent…
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Alice Vincent
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Charlotte Runcie
, and 
In Haste
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Tim Mak is creating a new kind of war correspondence
A new prominent figure in independent journalism talks to Substack’s Clyde Rathbone about the evolution of the industry
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Clyde Rathbone
 and 
Tim Mak
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Substack is for video
Newsletters were just the start of it
 • 
Hamish McKenzie
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Chris Best
, and 
Jairaj Sethi
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The great British take-off
The U.K. is now Substack’s fastest-growing global market, doubling in size in the past year, writes Substack’s head of writer partnerships for the U.K…
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Farrah @Substack
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The lonely, plastic internet, factory settings on marriage and children, and how to gain power
This week’s digest is guest edited by Emily Sundberg, who writes Feed Me , a daily business publication on Substack.
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Emily
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Famous bread, Jeremy Allen White’s flowers, and why we love rainy days
This week’s digest is guest edited by Joanna Goddard, the founder and editor behind the influential lifestyle website Cup of Jo and writer of Big Salad…
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Joanna Goddard
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