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Substack Reads: The economics of Christmas music, and the power of gathering
Substack Reads: The friendship problem, festive season while sober, and the story of speculoos
Substack is the new business section of the bookstore
Substack Reads: The fractured future of AI, the lost art of ‘killing time,’ and Clementide bells
Substack Reads: The reluctant rom-com queen, and sunset at the Holestone
Substack Reads: The power of a Beatles song, cab driver portraits, and what makes thunder thunderous
Saying yes to sports on Substack
Substack Reads: Sports heartbreak season, rigorous thinking, and remembering Matthew Perry
Substack Reads: Ham is not a vegetable, the art of saying ‘no,’ and remembering Louise Glück
Reading Room: Maggie Smith’s top Substack reads
Substack Reads: Marrying down, playing hard, and the beauty of no makeup
The most exciting names in fashion are now on Substack
Substack Reads: Copyrighting a color, a chair affair, and the science of placebos
Substack Reads: A history of running, the greatest librarian, and purple spiders
The blogging boom is back—and it’s happening on Substack
Substack Reads: Becoming boring, the godfather of organic farming, and the original myth of autumn
Substack Reads: The great antitrust trial, performing in silence, and the illusion of busyness
Substack Reads: The greatest piano trio ever, and confessions of a design editor
Substack Reads: What owls know, tackling tent city, and ready? tomato!
Substack Reads: An American in Rome, the NBA’s schedule release, and descending through clouds
See what your friends are reading on Substack
Freedom to write, to research, to do something together: An interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Substack Reads: The most influential “scammer,” summer pasta salad, and the memory of places
Readers are voting with their dollars for a better culture
Substack Reads: Cosmic house, love in a factory, and what beans tell you about time
The Active Voice: Taylor Lorenz still believes in the internet
Substack Reads: The new vacation home aesthetic, and summer creamsicle energy
Substack Reads: Our house obsession, the K-pop power shift, and Ukraine’s mobile bakery
The Active Voice: Richard Hanania is seeking ‘enlightened centrism’
Substack Reads: Video games for all, the case against story, and mussels take on summer
Substack Reads: The songwriter who changed pop history, and our fascination with true crime
The Active Voice: Nadia Bolz-Weber is preaching to break your heart
Substack Reads: The wonder slam, undercover cops, and how to slow time
The new academy: modern intellectuals are writing their best ideas on Substack
Substack Reads: Beyond the beginner, spite fences, and the stories we tell ourselves
The Active Voice: Suleika Jaouad and Yung Pueblo are creating to live
The Active Voice: Suleika Jaouad and Yung Pueblo—full transcript
Substack Reads: The outguessing game, unleashing chaos, and finding your superpower
The Active Voice: Ted Gioia and Mike Solana are fighting from the fringes
Substack Reads: My godfather the king, why people strike, and the time-travel paradox
Substack Reads: Inside the mind of a collector, and a bookseller’s pilgrimage
A Substack is a book’s best friend: An interview with Luke Burgis
The Active Voice: Robert Reich is pressing the reveal key for society
Substack Reads: The fair that changed America, and hunting the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer
The Active Voice: Ethan Strauss is jumping off a high diving board
Substack Reads: All-access Hollywood, last supper in Hong Kong, and the ‘index mindset’
The Active Voice: Alison Roman is bored of Instagram
Substack Reads: A billionaire’s puzzling death, Fosbury flop lessons, and the spring equinox
Substack Reads: The woman who shaped art history, walking South L.A., and how to negotiate
The Active Voice: Patti Smith loves being alive
The conversation expands in Chat, now on the web
Substack Reads: Weekend rhubarbmisu, family estrangements, and how to stink of Zen
Reading Room: Emma Straub’s top Substack reads
Substack Reads: Celebrating 40, out in outer space, and Mars at midnight
The Active Voice: Emily Oster is okay with taking heat from the mob
Substack Reads: The ’90s were better, India’s sporting growth, and Shanghai psychedelia
The Active Voice: Etgar Keret is thinking weird thoughts
Substack Reads: The influencer illusion, animatronic groundhogs, and settling the score
The Active Voice: Heather Havrilesky finds life romantic, even when it’s terrible
Substack Reads: Fighting for education, the death of the canon, and unscrollable formats
A new way to say ‘thank you’ to your favorite writers
Substack Reads: Porn conventions, the art of record covers, and the truth about ‘having it all’
The Active Voice: Paul Kingsnorth is happiest on the margins
Private Message from Nicola Lamb: “The best time to start is yesterday”
Private Message from Bill Bishop: “Things go better when you get out of your own way”
Substack Reads: Can music be criminal? Plus: relationship mistakes smart people make
The Active Voice: Ted Gioia takes the long view
Private Message from E. Jean Carroll: “Don’t start an affair, start a Substack”
Substack Reads: Dark days, diary of a refugee, and poetry for the New Year