Stories from here, there, and elsewhere, delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday morning. Home is more than a place on a map.
Homesick is a newsletter about place, identity, and belonging written by me, Matthew Newton, and published every Thursday morning. Home, as a topic, is both incredibly narrow and wildly broad. Narrow in the way that personal histories, geography, and familial ties anchor us in place and time. But broad in the sense that home also exists in memory and travels with us across decades, borders, oceans, and time zones. In simple terms, Homesick is a biography of place. The name—inspired by the emotional distress we all experience when away from home in a new, unfamiliar environment—is deceptively simple. Look closer, however, and it reveals infinite layers of interpretation.
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When is it published?
Homesick is published every Thursday morning. A new issue is delivered to your inbox each week. When it arrives, you can expect one of the following types of stories:
Dispatches: Shortform, blog-like posts that examine place, identity, and home through the lenses of art, film, literature, music, and more.
Interviews: Longform conversations with artists, filmmakers, historians, musicians, writers, and more, where we talk about their work and its relationship to their place in the world.
Essays: Thoughtful, incisive, and far-reaching writing on topics personal, political, and provocative. Sometimes a long read. Other times short.
How much does it cost?
Homesick is free. But it is also reader-supported. If you can afford to buy a subscription, I hope you will. Your contribution keeps the lights on.
Who writes it?
Homesick is written by me, Matthew Newton. I am a writer, editor, and arts worker from Pittsburgh, PA. My writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Guernica, the Oxford American, The Paris Review Daily, 3:AM, Spin, Forbes, and more. I’ve been a cultural commentator on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and I’m the author of Shopping Mall (Bloomsbury). To learn more about my work, you can visit my website.
Contact
If you are interested in contacting me, please email mr.newton@gmail.com. You can also find me on Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
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Each issue of Homesick requires extensive time and resources before the writing ever begins. From research, interviews, transcription, and image sourcing to fact-checking, copyediting, proofreading, design, and marketing, the work that goes into each newsletter is substantial. If you enjoy the Dispatches, Essays, and Interviews that I publish each week, please consider supporting my work in one of the following ways:
SUBSCRIBE ➡️ Subscribe to Homesick, free or paid subscription.
RECOMMEND ➡️ Refer Homesick to a friend.
PURCHASE MY BOOK ➡️ Buy Shopping Mall, my book about the curiosity, ritual, and fantasy of the American mall.
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