Substacks recommended by Antonia Malchik

Recommended by Antonia Malchik

Dispatches on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

Bryan writes about nature in such compelling ways, but the reason I really love Chasing Nature is because he always takes an unexpected turn in the narrative. I learn something new AND think differently every time.

- Antonia Malchik

Apperceptive (moved to buttondown)

By sam

this newsletter has moved to buttondown.email/apperceptive

Informed explanations of the inevitable failings of self-driving cars, from someone who's been in the business, and why artificial intelligence and large-language models aren't what they're hyped to be.

- Antonia Malchik

Berkana

By Swarnali Mukherjee

Built with a soft burning passion for obscure places, people, folklores, and cultural epiphanies

Whenever Swarnali's essays appear in my inbox, I know I'm going to find time to give them my full attention. They move through history, colonialism, grief, and beauty with equal richness and the weight of someone who sees the world clearly and fully and with a whole heart and open mind.

- Antonia Malchik

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

I learn more from Freya Rohn's research on "forgotten" women in history than I could possibly have imagined. One woman at a time, she's restitching stories of human history that had been stripped of their reality.

- Antonia Malchik

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

I absolutely love this newsletter! There are plenty of resources out there encouraging us to follow curiosity, but none manages to pull me out of my malaise and fatalism quite like Mike does. Fun, self-deprecating, and fascinating. I look forward to every issue.

- Antonia Malchik

Elizabeth Aquino

This is a place where poetry, politics, caregiving, disability and the ocean intersect with the body. That body is mine and yours.

I love the voice and beauty of Elizabeth Aquino's writing, and in every newsletter she brings my mind to a turn, an idea, or a perspective I never saw coming and I end up thinking about it for the rest of the day.

- Antonia Malchik

The White Pages

By Garrett

Writing about Whiteness. Writing about organizing and social change. Writing (occasionally) about the shirt Ronnie Van Zant wore on the Street Survivors album cover.

Garrett writes in ways that are both honest and healing. I don't truly know anyone else doing similar work, or at least not as effectively.

- Antonia Malchik

Notes on Class

By Kathleen McLaughlin

Essays, interviews, reporting somehow related to economic class and inequality, some of the most obvious divisions, and ones we are very bad at talking about.

Kathleen McLaughlin, author of the book Blood Money on the blood plasma industry, is a veteran journalist who's been reporting from the U.S. and China on class, labor, and the demise of local news for decades. You want to know what's happened to your community news and the American precariat class? McLaughlin's reporting has insights you'll get nowhere else.

- Antonia Malchik

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

There is no newsletter I read that is more relevant (or more powerfully written) for how we act as humans, and how we will live together.

- Antonia Malchik

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

On the Commons

Recommended by Antonia Malchik