Substacks recommended by Richard Irvine

Recommended by Richard Irvine

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Dan Slevin has been a professional film critic for twenty years and is currently a regular contributor to RNZ on air and online. His daily recommendations newsletter is essential reading for film and TV fans.

If Dan recommends it, you should watch it.

- Richard Irvine

Scope Creep 🎯

By Joel Johnson

Attention as leverage.

Friday Night Beers

By Michael Donaldson

A wrap of beer news, features and reviews from Pursuit of Hoppiness.

Keep up with what's fresh and also hazy.

- Richard Irvine

Club Leftist Tennis

Tennis players of the world unite!

Badly Parked

By Cordwainer Bull

For New Zealand football fans who are diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

The Bounce

By Dylan Cleaver

New Zealand's sharpest sports writing and independent analysis.

The sharpest features, match coverage, links and thinking in NZ. Subscribe!

- Richard Irvine

YeeHawTheBoys Direct

By Yeehawtheboys

Weekly comics on everyday life, politics, and music in Aotearoa New Zealand by me, Daniel Vernon.

Museum Street

By Henry Cooke

A newsletter about New Zealand politics from Henry Cooke.

Blackbird Spyplane

Your No. 1 source for “unbeatable recon” into style, travel & culture

The Bulletin

By The Spinoff

The Spinoff's essential wrap of news from across New Zealand, published each weekday morning. Written by Bulletin editor Stewart Sowman-Lund.

Garbage Day

By Ryan Broderick

A newsletter about having fun online.

Sport Review

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