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The Sunday Long ReadIf you want one email that already looks like a weekend, this is it. It lands every Sunday, free, built around the past week's best longform journalism from across the web, so the reading list is waiting before your second cup of coffee.
Two journalists, Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman,…0 - 2
The BrowserThe most disciplined filter on this list. Every day its two editors, Robert Cottrell and Caroline Crampton, read hundreds of articles and send just five, so each pick has had to beat a lot of competition. The range runs across essays, reporting and the occasional podcast or video, from publications…0 - 3
Ann FriedmanBorn Jan 10, 1982The Ann Friedman Weekly
The warmest voice in this roundup. Journalist Ann Friedman sends it every Friday, rain or shine, so it arrives just in time to stock the weekend with great writing and rare gems from all over the internet, plus a column of text-only classified ads that are half the fun.
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Caitlin DeweyLinks I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
The name says it all: this reads like a well-read friend's message on a Saturday. Caitlin Dewey, a writer and essayist in Buffalo, New York, has sent it since 2014, and its regular weekend edition, now past its 790th issue, pairs her take on technology…0 - 5
Arts & Letters DailyThe pick for readers who like their weekend stack heavy on books, ideas and criticism. Arts & Letters Daily has been pointing to essays, book reviews and arts writing across the web since 1998, and its email edition now reaches over 175,000 subscribers.
Each post leads with two or three subjects…0 - 6
3 Quarks DailyA long-running retreat for curious generalists. 3 Quarks Daily started in 2004 as a curated home for everything intellectual on the web, and it still keeps a running selection of articles from elsewhere across science, the arts, philosophy, politics and literature, now gathered on its Recommended…0 - 7
Jason KottkeBorn Sep 27, 1973kottke.org
One of the web's longest-running link blogs, and still one of the most generous. Jason Kottke's site has been posting finds since 1998, and on any given day that can mean a science story, a short film or an essay worth an hour. His free newsletter gathers the posts every Tuesday and…0 - 8
Dense DiscoveryThoughtful links meant to inspire reflection, not reaction, which is exactly the mood for a slow weekend. Kai Brach has sent it weekly since 2018, more than 400 issues so far, mixing design, technology, culture and art.
Alongside the articles come short sections on tools, books and media, so each…0 - 9
SentiersFor the weekend reader who wants to think ahead. Patrick Tanguay's carefully curated weekly newsletter hunts for signals of change across technology, society and culture, with an eye on imagining better futures rather than predicting gadgets.
With more than 420 numbered issues behind it, the…0 - 10
Rusty FosterToday in Tabs
The funniest roundup here, and the one most likely to tell you which story everyone is quietly arguing about. Rusty Foster started it in 2013 as a joke that grew, and it still packs a lot of internet into one email: links to things he has been reading, media and newsbiz gossip, tech…0
