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…
Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond — Last week, on May 29, New York City Mayor Mamdani fired New York Sheriff Anthony Miranda and appointed Edwin Raymond as his replacement. This caught my eye for a few reasons, the first being
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“July Sun” — Ghulam Ali pushed his way through the sugar-cane. It was quiet and still except for the anxious scuttling of insects around his feet. He squatted down, and the stems closed in around him when he un…
World Cup Daily: Canada, Swiss fight for Group B; Messi's midnight workout — We are now down to the final round of group stage matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, where all teams from the same group will be playing at the same time.
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P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism — I was introduced to the term “Afro-Surrealism” through an interview in which Phillip B. Williams called it his preferred way to describe his novel Ours. The phrase was coined by Amiri Baraka in 197…
'Trent Bridge falls silent!' - England lose three early wickets — England lose three wickets for eleven runs as Joe Root, Jacob Bethell and Jamie Smith are dismissed early on day three of the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
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If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It | Cem Dervis — An argument for physical media ownership, with examples of streaming services shutting down, content disappearing, and digital licenses being revoked.
The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together — This essay is adapted from Traversal. She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes and tubes of pain…
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Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System? — The grandeur of Saturn is stunning to behold when viewed through a telescope. Possibly the most iconic and easily identifiable member of our solar system, this “ringed planet” has a vol…
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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……
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iOS 27 beta 2, Apple price increases, Apple Watch OS support - 9to5Mac — Benjamin and Chance react to the shocking price increases across Mac, iPad, and more, as well as break down all...
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Belgium fans erupt after latest-ever goal seals place in last 16 — Belgium fans celebrate a dramatic 3-2 victory over Senegal in extra time.
Asian LNG Buyers Expect Qatar to Let Force Majeure Lapse in July — Asian liquefied natural gas customers of Qatar expect the supplier to let its force majeure expire in the middle of next month, as tensions in the region ease and the Persian Gulf producer ramps up exports.
Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform | TechCrunch — Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.
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France the team to beat? Chris Sutton's predictions for last-32 matches — BBC Sport's football expert Chris Sutton gives his predictions for the last-32 ties at the 2026 World Cup, including England against DR Congo.
bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins — Fifteen years into reading and writing in order to learn how to live, I looked back on these marginalia on the search for meaning and realized that the people whose lives and work have most moved m…
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Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a Unicorn in the Practice of Translation — Soledad Acosta de Samper spoke English, traveled the world, wrote every day, and saved the newspaper clippings in which her novels appeared to turn them into albums. She married for love, had…
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International Phonetic Alphabet – IPA Charts, Keyboards and Language Information — The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an academic standard that was created by the International Phonetic Association. IPA is a phonetic notation system that uses a set of symbols to represe
Galaxy Z Fold 8 series camera details leak, but they don't sound very 'Ultra' — Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 series is bringing some new camera setups and some upgrades, but nothing fitting of...
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“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other — Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to …
Bitcoin firm advertised by Nigel Farage loses 15% of asset value — Exclusive: Finance experts warn against investing in bitcoin treasury companies after Stack BTC assets plunge
May’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say, Douglas Stuart’s John of John, and Ali Smith’s Glyph all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit H…
Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems — AI helping pharmaceutical researchers query decades of information buried in PDF reports
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Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical t…
How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way) — A dynamic and innovative society, focused most on launching people into the prime of their lives, depends on taking good care of those aging out of it—if only to keep the threat of gerontocracy…