Short Archive

Personally, I sometimes just want a short, text-based archive rather than the thumbnail archive that Substack gives by default. In case anyone else’s like me, I’ve made this.

This needs to be kept up to date manually, so it might sometimes be slightly out of date.

• Early-Installment Weirdness September 9, 2023

• It's been a year September 8, 2023

• The Thin Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy September 2, 2023

• Short Reviews for August 2023 August 26, 2023

• Augustus Caesar and the Masquerade of the Republic August 19, 2023

• Don’t Deride the Masses August 12, 2023

• Goodreads and the Hard Problem of Book Recommendations August 5, 2023

• Short Reviews for July 2023 July 29, 2023

• The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the West July 22, 2023

• Imagining Traffic Jams In a Far Universe July 15, 2023

• Constraints as the Writer's Friend July 8, 2023

• The Madness of Yankee Doodle July 1, 2023

• Short Reviews for June 2023 June 24, 2023

• Emancipation on the Ground Level June 17, 2023

• Boston and the Changes of Modernity June 10, 2023

• The Late Partial Redemption of Stephen A. Douglas June 3, 2023

• Golden Age science fiction May 27, 2023

• Short Reviews for May 2023 May 20, 2023

• A Modern Kids' Adventure Story May 13, 2023

• Paul Revere in the Story of History May 6, 2023

• Abandoned Series April 29, 2023

• Short Reviews for April 2023 April 22, 2023

• How It Allegorically Happened April 15, 2023

• Visions Towards Utopia April 8, 2023

• Guest Reviews by Hobbits April 1, 2023

• Short Reviews for March 2023 March 25, 2023

• The Advantages of Fantasy March 18, 2023

• Helping Your Protagonist Shine March 11, 2023

• It's been six months March 8, 2023

• Why Did France Fall? March 4, 2023

• Poor Lenses For a Story February 25, 2023

• The Election of 1800 February 18, 2023

• Short reviews for February February 11, 2023

• Some Thoughts on Sequels February 4, 2023

• The Kings Who Didn't Do Anything January 28, 2023

• Rigging a Thought Experiment January 21, 2023

• Memories of Childhood Storytelling & Memories of Childhood Storytelling, Part Two January 7-14, 2023

• Transitions in History December 31, 2022

• Speculations about a "Last Battle" movie December 24, 2022

• Short reviews for December December 17, 2022

• Memories of Mid-Century Kids' Books December 10, 2022

• Gaps in History December 3, 2022

• The Extravagant Details of Biography November 26, 2022

• The Story of Thanksgiving As a Story November 19, 2022

• Local or Systemic Moral Ambiguity November 12, 2022

• Showing Shakespeare's Talent Without Meaning To November 5, 2022

• Constantine and his Legacy October 29, 2022

• The Smallpox Eradication Campaign October 22, 2022

• So Many Worlds, So Few Good Books About Them October 15, 2022

• Impure Gold, But Still Gold October 8, 2022

• The Giver: A Simple, Cozy Dystopia October 1, 2022

• Gangster Government September 24, 2022

• Telling the Story of a Social Movement September 17, 2022

• The Depths of Middle-Earth September 10, 2022

• On Story September 9, 2022