The Fugitive World

A newsletter and podcast for all the good kids.

the junk shop of history

Your No. 1 source for “unbeatable recon” into style, travel & culture

Through cheeky, heartfelt essays, cultural critiques, and reporting, Mark Pagán's "Other Men" candidly and warmly dissects everyday masculinity. Think of it as Sesame Street about men.

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

Criticism, essays, etc.

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books, other things

A daily blog on foreign policy and international affairs by Daniel Larison

Trying to make sense of a changing world & our place in it—dispatched from Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, places in between.

A way to inform people about things I’ve been writing and reading, upcoming events, and the like. On the horizon is MUSKISM, a book I co-authored with Ben Tarnoff, out in spring 2026, available for preorder now. Kirkus called it “bleak but urgent.”

Writer, podcaster

Economics and other stuff

Paintings!!!!

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Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.