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This is a super-fun hub for all things literary, and the balanced life. Warmly recommended.
Super-smart (and often funny) writers on politics and culture. They'll shake up your day.
This is the real deal. It moves beyond "best loved classical works" to works that are equally great but less often heard, and always chooses gorgeous performances. You can't go wrong here. Warmly recommended.
Auraist aims to support high-quality writing, and it’s packed with examples that inspire the writers who read it to do better. Highly recommended.
Stoicism believes embracing rationality and practicing self control are the secrets to a happy and peaceful life. I'm not sure that covers everything, but I love the embrace of self-control and rationality, and I know this advice is head and shoulders above what we're likely to find anywhere else on the internet. I highly recommend subscribing.
Advice columnist who gets great questions and gives intense answers on topics such as “the current frankly awful conditions for developing REAL RELATIONSHIPS with NON-IMAGINARY HUMANS.” Love this Q&A: “'Was It Even Real?' Making an expressive, sensitive man your best friend can be an exercise in disappointment."
Fine prose doesn’t happen only in novels, memoirs, or literary criticism. Lovers of well-used language will linger here, in this Substack on foreign affairs. You may not end up agreeing with him, though I usually do. But even if you don’t, you’ll see that he knows what he’s talking about, and you’ll feel the power of his argument.
Chris is a former journalist who asks how he should use the time he has left. His thoughtful posts are the answer.