These church members disagree on politics. Together they're wiping out medical debt — Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
National Wildlife Federation — Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world, the National Wildlife Federation builds upon our nation's conservation heritage for present and future generations.
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
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My Mother’s Voice: Messages From Tehran — The walls were cracked, the ceiling collapsing. Ruins underfoot. My manuscript spread haphazardly across the areas untouched by rubble. Pages lifting and settling on top of one another in the early…
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Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award. — Last night, in a ceremony, the New York Public Library announced the winner of its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by writers 35 and younger. This year’s winner is Carrie …
Lit Hub Weekly: May 18 – 22, 2026 — “I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film Kath…
Photographer Michael Shainblum Reveals New Zealand's Remarkable Beauty — Michael Shainblum on photographing New Zealand through intuition, patience, and changing weather.
Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer — In 1989, a year into my judgeship in Denver County Court, I began writing at night about the last week of my father’s life—trying to understand his absence from it after my interracial marriage. Ho…
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — The status of species worldwide.
Our Programs - American Bird Conservancy — American Bird Conservancy relies on proven, scientifically backed strategies for achieving conservation results for birds throughout the Americas. We take on some of the greatest challenges facing birds, applying our expertise to solve c
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go — This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The…
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
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Apple Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Email Addresses — A flaw in Apple's Hide My Email service can reportedly allow almost anyone to uncover the real email address behind a generated alias, and Apple has failed to address it for more than a year since it was first…
Apple 'Concerned' Over iPhone 18 Pro Data Leak From Supplier Tata — Apple is "concerned" about a recent data leak from Tata Electronics, one of its manufacturing partners in India, reports Reuters. Tata Electronics was the target of a cyberattack, with confidential Apple…
Congress Hasn't Been Briefed Since The Iran Negotiations Took Place Says Rep. Malliotakis — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff will brief the full House and Senate today on the initial peace deal between the US and Iran, Punchbowl reports citing a…
Kids with autism are prone to drowning. Florida is trying to prevent that — Kids with autism can be 160 times more likely than other children to drown. Florida is dedicating state money to a program that prioritizes swim lessons for these kids.
Pułapka Fibonacciego | Marta Płonka | TEDxAGH University — W swojej prelekcji Marta Płonka opowie o nieustannym perfekcjonizmie i potrzebie ciągłego samodoskonalenia w naszym życiu. Przyjrzy się temu, jak te dwa aspekty wprowadzają nas w życiu codziennym w przysłowiową pułapkę…
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
Manil Suri on Visualizing Your Book’s Narrative Structure — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here’s a nifty tool I’ve devised which authors might want to try out for themselves. It’s free, easy to use, and reveals t…
Google announces $1.5 billion Alabama data center expansion, says it's covering energy costs — Plans to expand Google’s data center in Jackson County, Alabama, are underway with a $1.5 billion investment from the company....
this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers) — I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with questions to me about what is happening at home. The…
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Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor — At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a…
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Watched a heron stand motionless in shallow water for 20 minutes, then miss the fish anyway. Nature documentaries don't show you how much wildlife just... fails at the basics.
Claire Danes’ Two Favorite Scenes in ‘The Beast of Me’ Have One Key Thing in Common: Facing Off with Matthew Rhys — The two-time Emmy winner tells IndieWire about two intense face-offs against her formidable costar Matthew Rhys, who plays both antagonist and muse.
What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut” — The following is from Leroy Chiao’s Dinner with an Astronaut, and describes one step in Chiao’s late 1980s journey to becoming astronaut. * What was the astronaut interview like? I flew to Houston …
Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…
Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar next to my bed for three weeks. My apartment now smells like something died, but also like I know what I'm doing.
On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life — My mother didn’t have the budget for me to compete with the kids who had Jordans or AF1s or who rocked any of the more expensive brands. This was something I had hard feelings about when I was youn…
50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time — We updated this list as part of the the Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! Join the challenge now! What makes a summer novel? It might be set in during a summer (One Fateful or otherwise), o…
How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026 — “She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Bi…
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
How We All Become Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map — As Taiwanese manufacturers rushed to fabricate GPS chips in the early and mid-2000s and sat-nav companies rushed to install them in their receivers, Frank van Diggelen and his colleagues at Global …
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship — “Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Kevin Young has won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize. — Last night, at an event in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2026 winner: Kevin Young’s …
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto — When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He …
OpenAI's free GPT-5.5 model makes ChatGPT better at understanding context — OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?) — The Mayflower Pilgrims believed that they were freedom seekers, escaping centuries of bondage. William Bradford, a Mayflower passenger who served as Plymouth’s longtime governor, began h
Feeling Creatively Stuck? Try Following the Routines of Other Types of Artists — Before the sun rose, while her children slept, Toni Morrison hauled herself from her bed to her desk and began to write. Stephen King wrote at a child’s tiny desk in a trailer. In the basement of P…
Our Work — The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
Home | The Wildlife Trusts — The Wildlife Trusts are a federation of 47 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. We manage nature reserves, help people to learn about nature and campaign to protect our land and seas.
Samsung's Secure Folder does something most people miss—run two instances of any app — Be on the lookout for out-of-the-box ways to utilize “boring” features.
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The Tubs Announce New Album 'Hard Life': Hear "Who's Gonna Love You Now?" — The Tubs, your jangly, folky British post-punk favorites, announced their signing to Merge Records this past spring by successfully translating Metallica’s classic heavy metal ballad “Fade To Black”…
How Do You Write a “Mighty Book” in 2026? — “To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville writes in Moby-Dick. In the US, one of the mightiest for the past generation has been the shift from a society dominated b…
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
Serena Williams on Maya Joint match and return to tennis — For Serena Williams, everything and nothing has changed on her return to Wimbledon.