Most of sun to be eclipsed across island of Ireland — Skywatchers are set to witness two major celestial events next week, with a deep partial solar eclipse followed by the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.
this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
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Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman Enter the Cartoon Caption Contest — The comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons.
Days Of The Year — 🎉 Browse hundreds of national days, holidays and celebrations. Find today's national days, explore what's coming up this week, and never miss a fun holiday again.
“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping — There is already a Black feminist tradition of using the arts as historical preservation. A dynamic sampling of contemporary literature and art created by Black women considers the forms of
My Partner Fired a Gun in Our Home. Was I Wrong to Take It Away? — She said she felt an overwhelming compulsion to pull the trigger that she could not resist.
TactStyle: 3D modeling you can feel — MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2025/3d-modeling-you-can-feel-0422 Authors: Faraz Faruqi (MIT CSAIL), Maxine Perroni-Scharf (MIT CSAIL), Jaskaran Singh Walia (Vellore Institute of Technology), Yunyi Zhu (MIT CSAIL), Shuyue Feng (Zhejiang Unive
Oshirado in Tōno City, Japan — <p><img alt="Hooded statuettes of Oshira-sama." data-width="4000" data-height="6000" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/zmRtLSPIk2vW3VY0hGAPflard_elsA-d-xcBCrljwv4/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh…
In "Mutual Analysis" with Wallace Shawn’s Moth Days by George Prochnik — May 15, 2026 – "I do say to myself every day, Well, these crimes that have been committed in order for me to have this lovely fruit salad are inexcusable, but shouldn’t I at least enjoy the fruit salad?"
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…
Why We Need More Woman-Centric Retellings of The Odyssey — During a pivotal moment in The Odyssey, Circe sends Odysseus to the Kingdom of the Dead to find the soothsayer who can instruct him on how to return home after more than a dozen years away. But to …
Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
Apple and Google ordered to purge 'nudify' apps from App Stores | TechCrunch — In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.
Less is more, more or less — In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
Nine Feminist Mythological Reimaginings to Read After You Watch The Odyssey — Mythologies across the world abound with stories that center heroes. Be it Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Mahabharata or the Shahnameh, great epics highlight the exploits and adventures of men, the wome…
Watch a Monumental Iceberg in Greenland Do a Somersault — On July 25, a mammoth iceberg literally made waves as it flipped over in Disko Bay off the coast of Ilulissat.
From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World — In her classic memoir of Soviet state terror in the 1930s, Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam recounts the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they flee from city to villa…
How to make the iconic "looney cake" from Succession — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff - Longreads — Writing is always going to be hard and why it's worth the struggle.
Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier) — Let’s be honest about something: the fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to have finished your novel. Writing …
F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different? — Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds.
The Ignorant Art Historian: Sackcloth 1953 by Hal Foster — May 19, 2026 – “We associate burlap not with art but with use, indeed with waste.”
Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2026 — How it feels when one of your poems is literally going to the Moon. | Lit Hub Nature Why Steven W. Thrasher is suing Northwestern University (and the US government). | Lit Hub Politics “Put s…
An English professor in Florida was just fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story. — Vinita Prabhakar, an instructor at South Florida State College, was suspended from her post when admin got wind she was teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh short story in her intro to fiction…
How Pakistan Is Using the Iran War to Reinvent Itself — The country’s emergence as an unlikely mediator between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic illustrates how diplomacy has become more personal and transactional under President Donald Trump.
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media — I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commer…
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. — The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…
US diplomat Rubio targets Cuban military officials, companies in sanctions — US says the five entities and eight individuals sanctioned help Cuba acquire military equipment from Russia and China.
Factories are just rooms — Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 725 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners) — Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came upon this wisdom, I was on the seventh draft of my debut n…
Namwali Serpell and Kortney Morrow on Toni Morrison’s Paradise — Toni Morrison didn’t want a monument or statue erected in her honor; she wanted a dedicated reading room in her hometown public library, a space that could allow for change and continuous eng…
“Rafa”: the Destruction of a Man, and the Making of a Legend — For tennis champion Rafael Nadal, pain has always felt like weakness leaving the body, and a new Netflix docuseries shows the boons of this ideology, as well as its undeniable costs.
Lit Hub Daily: July 21, 2026 — Why more retellings of the Odyssey should center women: “We are like Penelope, unraveling Homer’s tale for our own purposes.” | Lit Hub Criticism How Jean-Paul Sartre and other Fr…
My Awful Mother Is Getting Alzheimer’s. What Do I Owe Her? — The thought of having her live with me makes me physically sick.
On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota — The black-and-white booklet is meant to fit easily in a pocket or slip into the palm of a polite stranger, anyone whose willingness to make eye contact left them open to learning about race relatio…
Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading? — “The part of ourselves that matters, when it matters, is outside time… Think of yourself simply as an instrument capable of whatever experiments in beauty or truth you wish to perform, and yo…
“Vulnerability as a Valid Way.” 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June — I’m thrilled to be joining Rebecca Morgan Frank as co-poetry columnist—I’ll be here every other month with seven new poetry collections. “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke is perhaps …
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
Apple sued over alleged lack of age checks for casino games in Brazil - 9to5Mac — Apple is facing a civil lawsuit in Brazil over allegations that children can download and access casino-style games without meaningful age verification.
Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis. — Rejoice, friends! The great city of Minneapolis is getting a new indie press. Lost Kite Editions (LKE) is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in poetry and literary prose. The press aim
For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur — Caked calcium to be strip-mined from Dad’s bathtub and sink. Thick snowdrifts of dust to plow from his bedside tables. Looming towers of credit card statements and tax documents to audit and shred…
Don't Outsource the Learning — Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading fu...
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead — It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to…
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art — Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more.
New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash — Salamanca City Central says it is pausing project with Realbotix as it addresses concerns including data privacy
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …
Purpose, the Untold Story — The poker game that changed my life
Letters from Our Readers — Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s piece about a concierge women’s-health doctor, Burkhard Bilger’s piece about the lone-star tick, and Adeline Goss’s piece about the potential connections between frontotemporal dementia and criminality.
How Mouvement Can Transform Your Mind and Body | Mohamed Fakhri | TEDxLycéePiloteAriana — Mohamed Fakhri gives us his view on sports and how they helped him immensely during the lowest point of his life. It was this passion that pushed him to walk the entire length of Tunisia…
Powerful Typhoon Dolphin hits China, prompting flood and landslide warnings — Typhoon Dolphin struck eastern China, affecting millions with strong winds, heavy rain, and massive waves.
Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness — Stepping up to the subtle gestures that can redeem a day, or a life.
UK prosecutors argue Tate brothers a flight risk ahead of bail hearing — Andrew and Tristan Tate would attempt to evade prosecution if they are freed on bail, prosecutors argue.
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 …
WorldClaw: Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale — From one open-ended prompt to an explicit, explorable, and editable 3D world.
Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel — Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room.
Lit Hub Daily: June 5, 2026 — You’ve heard of Mary Shelley, but what about her half-sister, Fanny Imlay? | Lit Hub Biography Steven W. Thrasher considers Zohran Mamdani’s new sheriff, Edwin Raymond, and the many manifestations …
“Birthright” and “Giant” Tackle Jewish Identity. — The plays explore interpersonal rifts over Israel, but only one lets the ugliness linger.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our mixum gatherum of marvelous reviews this week includes Rachel Vorona Cote on Paul Yoon’s Etna, Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham’s Killing Spree, Daniel Felsenthal on Molly Crabapple’s Here Whe…