Baseball’s Magna Carta Finds a New Home — In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby’s auction and nabbed the “Laws of Base Ball,” a nineteenth-century document detailing early rules of America’s pastime. Now it’s worth two hundred and fifty times what he paid.
Nottingham Forest to replace Pereira with Glasner — Vitor Pereira is poised to leave Nottingham Forest with the club ready to appoint former Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner as his successor.
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes, Katy Waldman on Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Hamilton Cain on Josh Weil’s What Came West, Adam Gopnik on Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Do…
Mushrooms and Our Search for Meaning — This essay was originally published as the cover story in the Summer 2025 issue of Orion Magazine. “Who are you?” the caterpillar barks at Alice from atop the giant mushroom, and Alice, never quite…
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…
Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2026 — Why every American writer “must in their prose or poetry pen their own Declaration of Independence,” unconsciously or otherwise. | Lit Hub Criticism Rosa Montero explores the relationship between w…
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence — “I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowne
Why Women Need Fairy Tales to Stay Rooted in Their Own Lives — In 1993, when I was thirty-two years old, I experienced something that resembled a breakdown. Burnout, we’d call it now, but the term wasn’t used so much back then. I was stuck in a corporate job I…
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Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband. - Longreads — "You can wager on war, elections, awards shows, reality TV, scientific progress, and—in the case of writer Carrie Sun—your own spouse. If you want to play, you have to wonder: Are you…
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I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke. — Either AI is ready to help run a country, or it can't be trusted with a board game. The honest answer is both.
Leaving Mozilla — > On burn-out and bull-headedness
Just scores double but New Zealand held by Iran in entertaining game — Iran twice come from behind to draw 2-2 with New Zealand at the Los Angeles Stadium in their Group G encounter.
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning — “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person……
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Dog’s Gaze, and Ann Patchett’s Whistler all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book…
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“Effaced…” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine — “Effaced…” by Jawdat Fakhreddine translated by Huda Fakhreddine Effaced, our villages, squares and skies. Nothing remains but smoke, and fires roaming freely. Houses, gardens, fields, all gone. The…
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (Al…
Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality — Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from …
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece — “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page — To examine the increasing similarities between television storytelling and literary fiction—particularly their shared emphasis on complex characters and challenging themes—I recently spoke with…
How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale — Barry Windsor-Smith was one of the most popular creators at Marvel Comics. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics did not look like or read like other comic books. It is important …