The Spread

A Saga in 5,600 Parts

The ZZ Top and ZZ plant of newsletters is surveying the splitscape and posing for a nude double portrait that will appear in next month’s Vanity Fair!

18 hrs ago • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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November 2025

It's an American… Something!

The apple pie and baseball of newsletters is close-reading a comeback, popping another lorazepam, and channeling our inner Brit.

Nov 20 • 

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Rachel Baker

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Desire Is a Noun and a Verb

The Siskel and Ebert of newsletters give two thumbs up to the magazine-aissance, sandwich-gen straight talk, and our surrogate southern aunt.

Nov 13 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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Midnight Omelet Party for 30

The Grubhub and DoorDash of newsletters (sorry, Martha) is binging on divorce divas, nanny contretemps, "sacrificial" motherhood, and one epic…

Nov 7 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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October 2025

The Beard Issue

The Mutton Chops and Van Dyke of newsletters strokes the ole goatee with Beard author Kelly Foster Lundquist. Plus: These reads are on fire.

Oct 30 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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All Dressed Up for Our Werewolf Bat Mitzvah

The Maleficent and Grand High Witch of newsletters is managing our schadenfreude for the ’90s, reveling in art-biz scandal, and craving testosterone…

Oct 22 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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Sarah Ball's Big Editor Energy

The Terry Gross and Diane Rehm of newsletters is back on the mic with WSJ's old-soul EIC.

Oct 17 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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Are You a Workhorse or a Show Pony?

The National Velvet and Black Beauty of newsletters trots out an interview with novelist Caroline Palmer. Plus: an iffy heiress, a breast-cancer…

Oct 15 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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Songs About Jane

The Eyre and Austen of newsletters is celebrating an It Girl with author Marisa Meltzer. Also: A Tashjian excluuuuusive! Plus: A Yalie on Yalies!

Oct 8 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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We’ll Have Our Cake (Please?)

The Starlet O’Hara and Mrs. Wiggins of newsletters is toasting a big one while contemplating prison vacations, banana hammocks, Malala as “sex bomb…

Oct 1 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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September 2025

Double Your Pleasure

The Paris and Nicky of newsletters is rethinking true crime, searching the heavens for career wisdom, and removing all specific references to our…

Sep 18 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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Cool Your Slice

The Margot Tenenbaum and April Ludgate of newsletters is affecting disinterest—are you convinced?—about the Deep South, Lizzo 2.0, and facelift…

Sep 11 • 

Rachel Baker

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Maggie Bullock

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