Substacks recommended by Jared Henderson

Recommended by Jared Henderson

Fake Noûs

By Fake Nous

Reasonable thoughts about philosophy, politics, and other interesting stuff.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Ted is one of the premier cultural critics on this platform. He has an eye for where the culture is going — including where it is going wrong.

- Jared Henderson

Woman of Letters

By Naomi Kanakia

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.

Notebook

By B.D. McClay

One third Books, one third Observations, one third Who Knows.

Kyla’s Newsletter

By kyla scanlon

human-centric economic analysis to help all of us understand the world better

Everything Was Beautiful

By Philip D. Bunn

Rambling about the books I read to anyone who will listen

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Come See Something Beautiful

By CSSB Editor

This substack is about the efforts of St. John Orthodox Church to build a temple in Cedar Park, Texas that will endure for centuries.

Fairyland

By Ella Dorn (Fairyland!)

Dispatches from the debris of Classic Hollywood

Political Currents by Ross Barkan

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

The Book of Ptah

By Ashutosh joshi

And they that are guided go not astray, but they that lose their bearings cannot find a straight course.

Part travelogue, part cultural criticism.

- Jared Henderson

The Metropolitan Review

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

big reader bad grades

By Alexander Sorondo

Snapshots about writers and writing, books and reading them, culture in general and the retail job that stifles it all.

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

A Book Designer's Notebook

By Nathaniel Roy

Notes on book design and creative practice for writers, designers, and book lovers.

For those of us who love books, a closer look at books as art objects.

- Jared Henderson

Open Questions

By Victor Kumar

Thoughts about anything

Bentham's Newsletter

By Bentham's Bulldog

Utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!

The American Peasant

By Christopher Schwarz

The unfiltered, PG-13 substack of woodworker and writer Christopher Schwarz. Posts cover folk furniture, running a woodworking business and generally pulling down the pants of craftsmen who have a giant stick up their butts. Two posts a week.

My favorite writer on woodworking. Christopher Schwarz is someone who fully lives out his ethos.

- Jared Henderson

New Cartographies

By Nicholas Carr

We have entered strange new territories. We need new cartographies.

Below the Fray

By Blake Lefray

Literary deep dives with just flippers and a spear.

literature & culture

Nerdy literature newsletter. Helping you make the most of your reading.

Leaves in the Wind

By David Bentley Hart

Religion, the arts, philosophy, culture... ...Foliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis...

One of the more interesting, and provocative, writers on religion, theology, and philosophy.

- Jared Henderson

On Ancient Paths

By Jeremiah Carey

A philosopher in exile, writing mostly on ethics and Orthodox theology.

Writings on Orthodoxy (and other matters) from a friend and fellow philosopher.

- Jared Henderson

Numb at the Lodge

By Sam Kriss

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Commonplace Philosophy

Recommended by Jared Henderson