Substacks recommended by Reena Kapoor | Arrivals and Departures

Recommended by Reena Kapoor

A haven, weaving words into life through Poem, Reflection, and Exchange.

Switter’s World is your one stop shop for everything you need to know about crossing off exotic locales from your adventurecation bucket list, seasoned with occasional Something Wonderfuls to ease your disappointment from letting those dumb dreams die.

Honest words!

- Reena Kapoor

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack. Periodically posting essays, interviews, and reviews.

Ars Poetica

By ars poetica

you are not an unspectacular thing. love@arspoetica.com.au

Ten Thousand Journeys

By Priya

Exploring the journeys we take, all ten thousand of them, through storytelling, personal experiences, books, and cultural and psychological perspectives

Creātell Collective

By Nicci Kadilak

A creator collective writing with the goal of developing greater curiosity, empathy, and connection.

A beautiful collective, an endeavor and an offering based on the simple notion of having meaningful conversations with the best of intentions, motivation and assumptions about our fellow conversationalists. Come with open hearts and minds, read us and with us and participate!

- Reena Kapoor

Coleman’s Corner

By Coleman Hughes

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

After Babel

By Jon Haidt

A free weekly newsletter from Jonathan Haidt and his team using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong

Orbis Tertius

By Dawson Eliasen

Eclectic esoterica, etcetera.

Lovely esoteric writing that takes me places I otherwise may not see or hear or feel...always love what I find.

- Reena Kapoor

Africa’s Bright Future

By Magatte Wade

Witness Africa's epic leap into a prosperous future. Subscribe to join the movement.

If you truly want to help Africa, listen to Magatte!

- Reena Kapoor

Stock Fiction

By Meg Oolders

A dynamic anthology of experimental short fiction, poetry, essays, humor, and multimedia projects from the fiery heart/busy mind of novelist, Meg Oolders.

Cutest, cleverest fiction to make you smile or laugh out loud almost daily. Meg is a fount of imagination and stories.

- Reena Kapoor

Poetic Outlaws

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

A beautifully curated journey through the words and wisdom of poets who found ways to etch and illustrate the meaning of life itself. I love these posts and miss them when I allow them to pass me by...

- Reena Kapoor

Pilgrims in the Machine

By Peco

being human in an age of acceleration

UNWON

By Keely Covello

Rural, working, and Western America | Keely Brazil Covello

Radically Pragmatic

By Anuradha Pandey

Truth over comfort.

Common sense thinking and analysis from a young woman who took her agency - and mental health - back! Kudos.

- Reena Kapoor

Sherman Alexie

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

Public

By Michael Shellenberger

Reporting on free speech, civilization, and humanity.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

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

Because it's common sense! Simply sensible, fearless and non-ideological reporting & analysis on our culture, politics and social condition in a self-destructive world that continues to go increasingly mad...

- Reena Kapoor

Glenn Loury

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world, by Glenn Loury.

Glenn Greenwald

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

One of the few honest, fearless and "liberal" - in the true sense of the word - minds in journalism out there who I may not always agree with but who I respect and trust.

- Reena Kapoor

Pirate Wires

By Mike Solana

technology, politics, culture

Just brilliant insight and reporting at the cross section of tech, culture and politics. No hold barred, no ideologue gods served and no lies told.

- Reena Kapoor

Luke Burgis Newsletter

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

Growth Matters

By Anurag Wadehra

A blog for tech leaders looking to scale their business. Anurag Wadehra explores patterns to help reposition your company for AI-led growth, build your go-to-market pathways, and evolve through all stages from seed to scale.