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The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

By Jonn Elledge

assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else

Jonn Elledge’s weird geography.

- Helen Lewis

The Debatable Land

By Alex Massie

Politics from Scotland, the UK and beyond plus culture, sport etc

Alex Massie on Scotland and more.

- Helen Lewis

Blocked and Reported

By Jesse Singal

A Podcast About Internet Nonsense

Methadone for twitter beef addicts.

- Helen Lewis

My Apophenic Haze

By Gia

a·po·phen·i·a æpoʊˈfiːniə noun --'the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena; the tendency to find personal information in noise.' ...but basically just an everything/nothing newsletter.

Art, digital culture and philosophy.

- Helen Lewis

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

“Only connect.”

- Helen Lewis

Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez

Keeping up with the gender data gap (and whatever else takes my fancy).

Pockets, loo queues and heart attacks.

- Helen Lewis

PassTheAux

By Eleanor Halls

Essays & interviews on music, media and popular culture

Irregular interviews on music and media.

- Helen Lewis

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

Smart takes from around the world.

- Helen Lewis

The Common Reader

By Henry Oliver

A blog for what Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf called the common reader. Make the most of your reading time. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis

Books you didn’t know you wanted to read.

- Helen Lewis

The Ruffian

By Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

Ian Leslie on conflict, curiosity and chords.

- Helen Lewis