Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts — The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the…
Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex — Sex is an integral part of a person’s life, but when it appears in fiction it can sometimes feel hesitant or awkward on the one hand, or risky or provocative, deployed as a demand for attention, on…
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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.
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The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up — It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of th…
Here are the winners of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards. — The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the…
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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.”
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
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To Know a Person Entirely: Re-Discovering My Grandfather Through Fiction — There is something I need to tell you about my grandfather: his name was Ben. He smoked Virginia Slims. He drove a big, low Cadillac with a beer between his knees. He was a lawyer. He helped licens…
游小鹏：AI让我不用等 | Xiaopeng You | TEDxXiamen — AI让等待成为过去，但真正的成长，依然需要你主动伸手，接住时代的微光。 Young developers in the AI era This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup — Soccer derives its beauty from its simplicity. Twenty-players and a ball on a rectangle of grass; put the ball in the other team’s goal; don’t use your hands. What makes soccer popular, I believe, …
Break to Sing: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in July — “Elegy, sing the bones to break / the cycle. The cycle: Sing to Break. Break to Sing.” –Philip B. Williams’ Lift Every Voice * This month, we see poets collaborating and conversing beyond words on …
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
AOL was down (1996) | ngrok blog — A historical journey through a 1996 AOL outage that captured America's full attention. Thirty years later, in a world where slop sells, what can SREs learn from that event?
Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2026 — Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Sofia Montrone on becoming reacquainted with her grandfather through fiction: “Before I was a …