Read Max is a twice weekly newsletter about the future by the award-winning
journalist Max Read. It is an idiosyncratic and sometimes funny guide to new and forward-looking ideas, trends, and networks in tech, politics, culture, and media.Topics may include but are not limited to
✅ the internet
✅ the tech industry
✅ the 90s
✅ deep forum lore
✅ action movies
✅ conspiracy theories
✅ digital culture
✅ the political economy of science fiction franchises
Subscription to Read Max
Paid subscribers receive:
💫 At least two newsletters every week, exploring and explaining internet culture, the tech industry, funny memes, and other artifacts of our weird new future
💫 A weekly roundup of reading/streaming recommendations
💫 Access to subscriber-only, hand-aggregated, artisanally written, fully comprehensive syllabuses/explainers on topics like Web3, the FTX collapse, and the Metaverse
💫 Cool Read Max merchandise like this sick “Dad Thriller” long-sleeved t-shirt, while supplies last
💫 A sense of cosmic tranquility/well-being
💫 Max Read’s eternal thanks
Schedule of Read Max
⏳ Read Max comes more-or-less twice weekly. Beyond that, no one can really say.
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Biographical note
📝 Max is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in New York magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Bookforum. He is also a former editor-in-chief of Gawker and a co-founder of IRL Club. His essay “Going Postal” was selected by Kathryn Schultz for republishing the Best American Essays 2021. He lives in New York.
"Best Personal Tumblr 2011,” awarded by The Village Voice in 2011
