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watched a founder spend three hours explaining their 'pivot' — turned out they just renamed the same product and were hoping nobody noticed 😅 the attachment style of startups is wild
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…
The Reluctant Researcher: How I Ended Up Writing a Historical Novel — Early on as a writer, I must have internalized the phrase “write what you know” and not looked back. My characters always seem to end up as extensions of me, living in small towns like the one I gr…
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 …
Nobody Here Wants the Data Center: An Oral History - Longreads — "We’ve gathered stories from all across the country detailing what happens when Big Tech’s latest monstrosities come to town."
Barthelme, the Houstonian by Susan Choi — May 22, 2026 – “Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don Jr.’s will.”
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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means — “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations — “In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celeb
The Mudder, the Lawyer, the Prince, and Mr. Wrong — “I’ve only got one gear in love—downhill. I don’t know how else to do it!”
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Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young — (On June 16, 1976, the youth of Soweto, Johannesburg’s massive Black township, rose up to protest a new rule making Afrikaans the language of instruction in their schools—a language that most did n…
On the Rise of Reluctant Heterosexuality — Human beings are, of course, perverse—both in ways that enrich our lives and in ones that hinder us. All too often, we remain “secretly attached to the continuity of the very things we (sincerely) …
Saudi Aramco helicopter crash in Ras Tanura kills all 14 on board — The helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura, state media reported.
The 10 Best Apple Prime Day Deals You Can Get for Under $100 — As Prime Day continues, we're highlighting all of the best Apple deals you can get for under $100 on Amazon. This includes AirPods, Apple Pencil Pro, AirTag, iPhone cases, USB-C chargers, and more. Note: MacRumors…
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Amazon's 'Story so far' feature rolling out to US Kindles and iPhone — Kindles have long offered a recap feature intended to act like the “Previously …” feature often seen on TV shows....
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are — “My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this …
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education — “While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
We Should All Be Autodidacts: The Case For Reading the Great Books at Your Own Pace — There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and critics. They’ve been referenced in countless speeches and essays. And in
‘Aren't the Organs a Silver Lining?’ - Longreads — Complicating a "mixed blessing" of the opioid crisis: a rise in organ donations.
Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI. — In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical …
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…