Cross Current

Musin' for a bruisin'

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

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

A Revival of Romantic Letters

Essays on literature with a focus on rebellious writers and their work.

A cultural intelligence and sensemaking think tank, explaining the emergent and advising organizations on how to author tomorrow. With +1M reads across +150 countries, ZINE publishes research on overlooked social shifts.

A Digest of Developments

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

“[Standing] at the helm peering with steady blue eyes into the portfolio of time.”

8Ball is a newsletter on culture, trends, and tech written by K-HOLE founder, Sean Monahan.

reflections on class with the occasional poem

Cultural and literary essays. Flavour profile: hints of bitterness, notes of saltiness.

Staring at the future through the rear-view mirror

Not a hot take. A body of work. Fragments, field notes, unfinished thoughts from a creative still figuring it out.

Website promoting working class politics and anti-imperialism.

Visions of the future from a cultural lens and insights for the culture from a futurist lens

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet.

A weekly look at news and trends you may have missed, with plenty of commentary.

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

Stay Grounded is a newsletter about establishing healthy boundaries with the internet without becoming a weird isolated Luddite.

A newsletter on culture, politics & history

Fiction and Articles by Sci-Fi and Fantasy Author Trafton Crandall

The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and riding the current of the /newwave/.

writing about the internet