Substacks recommended by Emma Hemingford

Recommended by Emma Hemingford

You might know me as a spirits and cocktail writer. I still write about those topics, but here I also go outside the splash zone.

Night Thoughts

By Archie Cornish

Thoughts about contemporary culture through night-vision goggles

This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin

All about fiction and creative non-fiction: writing it, reading it, teaching it and occasionally hating it

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Funny, incisive and true - just like Nick’s novels

- Emma Hemingford

Pen, Book and Garden: Notes from Linnesby

By Notes

Literary essays from the Swedish countryside

What to read if

Reading suggestions for all occasions

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

The Noösphere

By Katie Jgln

Weekly musings on humans and the big rock we live on through a social sciences lens.

The Austen Connection

By Plain Jane

How Jane Austen's stories connect to us today, and connect us to each other.

Deep dive Austen analysis that is insightful, accessible, and erudite.

- Emma Hemingford

Ask Polly

By Heather Havrilesky

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

¡Hola Papi!

By John Paul Brammer

Writing, art, and more from John Paul Brammer.

John Paul Brammer's queer advice column is fresh, funny and sharp.

- Emma Hemingford

Fictional Therapy

Recommended by Emma Hemingford