Substacks recommended by Iain Maloney | The Only Gaijin in the Village

Recommended by Iain Maloney

Thoughts on Waking

By Rachel Ferguson

Poems, essays & wonderings.

Nevertheless’s Substack

My personal Substack

The Hachi by Dan Orlowitz

Buzzworthy and beyond in Japanese sports

The Stone Bridge

By Stone Bridge Press

Stories, expressions, and insights from Asia, especially Japan and China.

Dreaming in Japanese

By Leanne Ogasawara

A Newsletter of Life, Love, and Language

Salman's Sea of Stories

By Salman Rushdie

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

The Lion's Teeth

By Ken Liu

Dispatches from a silkpunk

This Side of Japan

By Ryo Miyauchi

A newsletter about Japanese music, new and old