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Substack on Film: Laura Jackson

Substack on Film: London kicks off with a glimpse at the colorful life of writer and broadcaster Laura Jackson

Oct 16 •

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“Our lives are precarious and precious, built through years of wanting, waiting, choosing, changing, trying, failing, flying, failing”

In this edition of the Weekender: fables about freedom, forgotten radio hosts, and the complicated meanings of workwear

Oct 11 •

You wouldn’t be here for someone else

B.D. McClay on Taylor Swift, fame, and the allure of a showgirl

Oct 8 •

The home for media startups

There has never been a better time to start a media business

Oct 6 •

Hamish McKenzie

“To be human is to be an animal that needs witnesses”

In this edition of the Weekender: friendships made, emoji streaks broken, and the joy of a perfect martini

Oct 4 •

Substack is a social media app

Let’s just all agree on this

Oct 1 •

Hamish McKenzie

September 2025

The Substack Lives of a Showgirl

Taylor Swift’s new album already has people talking. Here’s when to tune in.

Sep 29

“What we pay attention to is all we really have”

In this edition of the Weekender: how to like poetry, the self-domesticating species, and a new song from Jeff Tweedy

Sep 27 •

The power to choose

In fraught times for culture, bet on press freedom

Sep 23 •

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Hamish McKenzie

“The world was a far more complex and impenetrable place than I had ever realized”

In this edition of the Weekender: a song for the September equinox, a lost photos archive, and the end of baldness

Sep 20 •

Is it cheating if your illicit affair is with AI?

Kat Rosenfield and Kate Lindsay debate

Sep 19 •

All the world’s a store

Emilia Petrarca on the theatrical highs and lows of shopping in the internet age

Sep 15 •

Emilia Petrarca

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