Archive - Stephen Thomas' newsletter

January 2025

“To think I might have died without having read it”: 100 good and bad classics

Jan 27 •

Review of Male Writers’ Fashion Decisions in Their Author Photos: Sam Lipsyte, Zachary German, Tan Lin

from the archives

Jan 21 •

Reviews: It Ends With Us — Challengers — My Old Ass

Perfect opinions on mortal works

Jan 13 •

Chat: They Know You're Lying

we evolved to evade murder

Jan 6 •

The 3 best writers on Substack, according to me

in order of how recently i became obsessed with them

Jan 1 •

May 2024

Alice Munro Slaps, Actually

Contra Lorentzen

May 20, 2024 •

Songs of Another World

An essay about Canadian art and experience, republished

May 17, 2024 •

February 2024

April 2023

Lay summary of Gwern’s “Clippy”

“Clippy” is a short story describing one way AI could kill everyone in the world

Apr 9, 2023 •

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