
Literary, 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 | 168 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Our podcast, Bringing Out the Dead, elicited a rousing reception from at least one reader, Jeanette Berkovitz. Here is what she wrote:
Oh, no! Not you, too...I don’t want people yapping at me. I loved you for allowing me to read in silence...
During one of my bouts of professional burnout, I decided to go back to school for an MFA in fiction. It was one of the best decisions I ever made but the execution, as is my wont, was a tad iffy. My first attempt took place in New Orleans,...
Why not do a podcast? Everyone else does. Besides, we’ve got J.P. Sottile, a veteran Washington, D.C. TV producer who’s also a mad news junkie (see The Rundown and NewsVandal). Unlike the rest of the Journal contributors, he actually knows...
“The Left is the party of murder.”
Elon Musk, indulging in psychological projection of the first order
A few weeks ago, I started binge-reading James Bond books. I had an ostensible reason: research for my own long-delayed second novel....
Here are the countries that have held public executions in the past few years: Afghanistan and Iran. Over the past decade? Add Somalia, North Korea and Saudi Arabia to the list, and if you want non-state actors, you may recall ISIS livestre...
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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.
Marc Cooper is an award winning writer, journalist and professor.
Playa, road scholar, insurgent.
I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.
Researcher & Analyst: Russian Intelligence & Influence Operations | Senior Fellow: CEPA | Senior Investigative Researcher: Institute for European Integrity. For investigative tips: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/olgalautman
Professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of "Inequality for All" and "Saving Capitalism." Co-founder of Inequality Media
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 wanted by the Russian Federation for fighting in Ukraine and is writing a memoir.
I write The Long Memo: what’s really happening to America, why, and what it means for you. Former DoD policy official. Stakes, not outrage.
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