Substacks recommended by Andrei Atanasov

Recommended by Andrei Atanasov

Untranslatable

By Kristin Wong

A social science journalist on identity, language, and the weirdness of being human.

The concept behind Kristin's newsletter is unique, and she writes with such grace and poignancy.

- Andrei Atanasov

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Fiction, mostly.

Nathan Slake is a literary wizard. Simply one of the best fiction writers on Substack.

- Andrei Atanasov

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

Tao Lin

Spirituality, literature, health, nature, psychedelics, cats, feral pigs, prehistory, cosmology, parapsychology, and other topics.

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

One of Substack's best writers, period.

- Andrei Atanasov

Nōto by Erika Tovi

Eclectic, ever-evolving notes on life, creativity, and children’s literature. 📒

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

An always wonderful, ecclectic collection of essays, many of them concerning interesting facts about Japan.

- Andrei Atanasov