Substacks recommended by Ruth Leon

Recommended by Ruth Leon

FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

By Tina Brown

Tina Brown's observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Tabled

By Julia Watson

Food stories (sometimes indigestible) that might change the way you eat, the history of ingredients, and travel tales about unexpected meals, with recipes.

Writing from London

By Nick Cohen

Politics and culture from the UK and beyond by Nick Cohen

Great writing.

- Ruth Leon

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

The most knowledgeable political commentator from the US.

- Ruth Leon

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

The best Substack in the Anglosphere by top British journalist, David Aaronovitch

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Literate, intelligent and, above all, a good read.

- Ruth Leon

News Items

By John Ellis

News Items: Interesting, important or both.

The Lownie Report

By Andrew Lownie

My Official Substack

Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.

SES/SUMS IT UP with Kevin Sessums

By Kevin Sessums

Conversation/Culture/Current Affairs

Cultural Digital

By Chris Unitt

Digital & tech for arts, museums, culture, heritage and creative professionals. By Chris Unitt.

Dancewatch

By Barbara Newman

dance, in every form, every place and every medium

A serious review site for dance, some of which is obscure but necessary.

- Ruth Leon

Exeunt

Inventive, in-depth, fierce and playful writing about theatre - now straight to your inbox. The new home for Exeunt Magazine.

The London Culture Edit

By Nancy Durrant

Reviews, recommendations, book-nows and dear-god-avoids from across London's incredible cultural landscape, from exhibitions to theatre, dance to gigs, opera to film and everything in between

This is a fine tour de l'horizon of what's available in the arts in London from a writer who understands the territory.

- Ruth Leon

Sanity Clause

By Joe Klein

As the Marx Brothers said, there ain't no sanity clause--but these are my latest thoughts about politics, policy, culture, books and other stuff.

Barry Singer (on The ARTS and Otherwise)

By Barry Singer (on the Arts and Otherwise)

Music - Theater - Musical Theater - Books. And Otherwise

Excellent writing on the arts and wider subjects of interest.

- Ruth Leon

Cultural Content

By Louise Cohen

Celebrating digital content from the cultural sector. By Louise Cohen from One Further and guests