Journal of the Plague Years
Susan Zakin, Joan Juliet Buck, JP Sottile, MR DAVID WEISS, Benjamin Stuart Reed, Brian CullmanLiterary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 155 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Abdul El-Sayed Might Just Pull It Off
“It really comes down to how you’re funded.”
Democratic Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed
In a media ecosystem drowning in clickbait and cowardice, Journal of the Plague Years offers something rare: insurgent intelligence with l...
MAGA's Ukraine U-Turn
Benjamin Stuart Reed, a kid from Massachusetts
In a media ecosystem drowning in clickbait and cowardice, Journal of the Plague Years offers something rare: insurgent intelligence with literary bite. Edited by Susan Zakin—an award-winning j...
It's Not Just Bad Bunny
Essential writing by essential writers on essential subjects. What more could you ask?
Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Can Trump Pull It Off?
“If there can be no trust, there can be no greatness. Unfortunately, the system we have falls catastrophically short of that standard.”
Donald Trump, 7/16/26
What master îronist in Trump’s employ came up with those self-incriminating wor...
Sex as a Weapon
In a media ecosystem drowning in clickbait and cowardice, Journal of the Plague Years offers something rare: insurgent intelligence with literary bite. Edited by Susan Zakin—an award-winning journalist whose bylines include GQ, Vogue, Salon...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Journalist: GQ, Vogue, Salon, The New York Times, etc. Author: Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement, a few others. MFA in fiction. Stepmom to brilliant, amusing boys.
Writer.
I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.
Playa, road scholar, insurgent.
Benjamin Stuart Reed is a U.S. Army veteran and writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, The Daily Beast, Le Devoir, and Asia Times. He fought in Ukraine. He is writing a memoir about what it cost.
Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.
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