Traders Bet RBI Hold, Cash Boost to Steepen India Yield Curve — India’s short-dated bonds will outperform debt with long duration, as the central bank is expected to keep interest rates on hold and banks are set for a large cash surplus, according to traders.
One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet — On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back of an eastbound Willys Jeep station wagon. The…
Which other countries could join the Turkiye-Saudi-Pakistan defence pact? — While Egypt has been floated as a candidate, analysts say Cairo may be wary of defence commitments.
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning | Mathematical Association of America
The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic — The walls of America have been lined with portraits of white men in black suits since the walls themselves were erected. Recently, as Americans have tried to balance this lopsided reflection of his…
Seven Novels That Explore the Lives of Wayward Youth — The “Wayward Girl” in fiction—and unfortunately, in reality—is defined less by her own actions and more by a society determined to “correct” her. The “waywardness” is usually a symptom of being too…
“Too Dangerous to Release” — Or Just Too Expensive? The Real Reason Anthropic Is Hiding Its Most Powerful AI — An evidence-based investigation into the real reasons behind Claude Mythos Preview's restricted release In the first week of April 2026,
I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet — Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
Courtney Love Recounts 2019 Health Scare: “They Told Me I Was Going To Die” — In an Instagram video, the singer also confirmed her next solo album is “done,” and thanked contributors including Michael Stipe and Billie Joe Armstrong
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Rachel Aviv’s You Won’t Get Free of It, Daniel Mason’s Country People, and David Thompson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book M…
Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels — People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu, for others the novel truly began when Cervan…
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect — The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.
Football Association of Ireland withdraws Infantino support — The Football Association of Ireland [FAI] officially withdraws support for under-fire Fifa president Gianni Infantino, while the Irish Football Association [IFA] confirms it backs Uefa's stance.
This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in…
Here’s what’s making us happy this week. — Hello, Lit Hubbers. It’s been a while. But the spring sun has put this staffer in a joy-lifting mood once again. What’s been making us happy recently? Earlier this month, Molly Odintz e…
Digg - AI news, before it trends — See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Pre-2022 Books | Notes by Lorenzo Gravina — I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of.
An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story — People can be surprised when they hear that I wrote a novel that centers professional wrestling. Someone like me–a Brown person raised in Bangladesh in their early 30s–isn’t what one thinks of when…
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life — A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of “the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great.”
The Power of a Thin Skin — “To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.”
Fish Bad, Sugar Good… And Other Medieval Ideas About Food — Although medieval ideas about food were very different to our own, its importance was widely recognized. According to Galen, food “is probably the most important of all medical subjects,” and it do…
A Diary from the Psychic Capital of the World by Greta Rainbow — June 12, 2026 – “The Psychic Capital of the World happens to be an unincorporated community in central Florida called Cassadaga.”
About this Reading Room | American Folklife Center | Research Centers | Library of Congress — The American Folklife Center (AFC) documents and shares the many expressions of human experience to inspire, revitalize, and perpetuate living cultural traditions. Designated by the U.S.
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System — When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
Announcing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link. — Announcing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link. by samuel cole, as one long readable page.
The New Atlantis — A journal defending science and technology for, not on, human beings
How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change — We are living in a time of massive upheaval—of grave crisis and also enormous opportunity. The world is transforming at a breakneck pace and will continue to change dramatically in our lifetime. Th…
The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders — “Now is the time for Helter Skelter,” Charles Manson is said to have said, and then the family went out and committed two nights of violence that meant to “shock the world” and “instill fear into t…
Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine — "We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say.
What Jack Kerouac Left Behind — A recent exhibition at the Grolier Club featured ashes that fell from a cigarette the novelist was probably smoking on the day he died. Joyce Johnson reflects on her time with Kerouac, and what she’s kept from him.
The Torture Chamber of British Politics Crushes Its Latest Prime Minister — Keir Starmer becomes the sixth Prime Minister over the past decade to resign, surrendering to the U.K.’s manifold problems.
True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again — Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the…
watched a entire post-game interview where the athlete spent 8 minutes explaining why his team lost and never once mentioned the other team was better... just his own mistakes on repeat. the delusion is almost admirable
Clearly Fake: Zurbarán’s Uncanny Realism — “The blunt way to put it is that when he’s not pulling off sublime feats of realism, Zurbarán can be spectacularly clumsy.”
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a ma…
Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next — Fancy something unusual and unpredictable? Funny or sexy? No problem. Use our unique mood and emotion search to find great books with exactly the flavour you've asked for.
Eat the Lotus! — Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”!
US PGA Championship 2026: England's Aaron Rai wins first major after a sensational final-day performance at Aronimink — England's Aaron Rai wins the first major title of his career with a magnificent final-round 65 in the US PGA Championship at Aronimink.
Russian Literature Does Not Belong to the Russian State — The designation of “foreign agent” is used by the Russian government to label individuals and organizations that receive foreign support or are (more nebulously) deemed to be under “foreign i…
Fetus found among the ruins of a deadly Israeli strike on Gaza — Residents searching through the rubble of an Israeli strike in western Gaza City recovered the body of an unborn baby.
The Bookstore-Slash-Skate-Shop Next to Ballerina Farm — The first book I sell on our first day in business is a used copy of Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School, for seven dollars.
On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate — Mom said the folks who’d be at the family reunion were Randy’s people, so I’d probably never met them but that was no reason not to try to talk. It’s true I often stayed quiet. If I raised my voice…
AI Is Too Expensive — If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and O
Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List — For the past six years, I’ve been working on a project that I describe to strangers and casual acquaintances as “a book about flowers,” and to friends and family as “a book about flowers and my not…
Iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell linked to cyclospora outbreak in 5 states — Federal health officials have identified a single supplier of the produce from Mexico that was served in Taco Bell restaurants in five states.
What Romance Novels Taught Me About Writing Literary Fiction — In August of 2021, I couldn’t read. I’d just had a miscarriage—my second within six months—and every time I picked up a novel, my attention would splinter, the words disconnecting from one another,…
Pimco’s Seidner Says Angst Over Fed Credibility is Unwarranted — Pacific Investment Management Co. says market anxiety about the inflation-fighting credentials of the Federal Reserve is overdone and that US bond yields at current levels look attractive.
Spirit Airlines and the Death of Leisure for the Non-Leisure Class — Spirit Airlines was a mess. But it was also an icon of budget travel, facilitating a kind of low-grade freedom for the masses.
the OED has a whole section for words that appear in exactly one book ever written. some of them are pretty good
Lit Hub Daily: August 17, 2026 — What did Jodi Picoult decide she needed to commemorate turning 60 and writing 30 novels? A tattoo. | Lit Hub Craft Steven W. Thrasher explores what we can learn about solidarity from Greg Tate̵…
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” — “To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Unhappy PSG given extra Super Cup dressing room — Champions League winners Paris St-Germain were unhappy with the space they were given at Red Bull Arena.
AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push — <p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">Amazon Web Services</a> is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest…
The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature — “In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases:…
Alcohol. Manliness. Flushable Wipes. Since When Are These ‘Scams’? — It’s a young word with obscure origins. But the fact that it’s so common shows just how ubiquitous fraud seems today.
'Hellcat' ending, explained — Let's dive into the secret of Brock Bodell's buzzy horror film.
“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman — As if in moments lay plummets down which a puttering soul might stunningly plunge to a sun-splashed terrace in Marrakesh: tea so thick with mint it conjures kelp in a cylinder of sea but for the be…
It's Not Time to Raise Rates, Says State Street's Hung — State Street Investment Management President and CEO Yie-Hsin Hung says gold and private markets are anchoring many portfolios. Hung says the US economy is in good shape and the Federal Reserve should not raise interest…
Xbox consoles are now much more expensive in the EU and UK — The entry-level price for an Xbox now starts at 499.99€/£429.99.