Substacks recommended by Hanif Kureishi

Recommended by Hanif Kureishi

McShrunk

By Darian Leader

Here, I’ll be writing about mental health, culture and politics, and the forces that shape how we think and connect.

The brilliant Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and writer. Follow him for writing on culture, politics and mental health.

- Hanif Kureishi

Kier Proudlove Kureishi

My Personal Substack

ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS

By Slavoj Žižek

Free from all forms of censorship that pervade our media, Žižek evokes and provokes philosophy, politics, culture, and so on.

My great friend Slavoj is now on Substack. Philosophy, politics and dirty jokes. Subscribe at your peril.

- Hanif Kureishi

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

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.

Off The Fence

By The Fence Magazine

A weekly newsletter comprising features, deep-dives, tips, investigations and gossip from the The Fence Magazine.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

The Orwell Foundation

News and insights from the UK's most prestigious prizes for political writing, plus new features on Orwell's life, work and legacy.

Tom Watson's Newsletter

We are a group of friends traversing life's middle years and talking about wellbeing and fitness, music and culture, policy and politics.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Salman's Sea of Stories

By Salman Rushdie

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Sinocism

By Bill Bishop

Get smarter about China

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

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