The Pharmakon
Sam LeithSam Leith on Reading, Writing, Re-Reading, Rhetoric and Recovery
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 27 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Does Substack have a privacy problem?
I got an email yesterday from a well-known writer. They said they’d had a notification through their own email that I had followed them on Substack (you’ll know the sort: “X followed you on Substack”, with a button to follow back), and want...
Leaving New York
I’m still away on a campsite, cooking beans. Here’s another piece I wrote that people seemed to like, which appeared in my old friend Craig Raine’s magazine Arete, way back when. It’s a snapshot of my life nearly 25 years ago, and a period...
Where I'm calling from
I’m about to be away for three weeks on a French campsite with not much internet, so I thought to schedule a couple of posts from my backlist that most readers won’t have seen. Why not start with one about exactly where I am. Here’s a bit I...
Polytropos
Like everyone, it seems, I’ve been thinking a bit about the Odyssey this week. I wrote my Spectator column on the subject, but since it’s paywalled — and since I had the unusual experience of continuing to think about it after writing my co...
The Book That Changed My Life (or, at least, one of them)
When I’m playing, as I’m sure most of us do, that game where you imagine having been invited on Desert Island Discs — and you lie there like Jimmy Rabbitte interviewing himself in the bath in the movie of The Commitments, honing your self-d...
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