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What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common? — Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city was quiet and my th…
Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics — Joan is eighty-five years old, and I fell a little in love with her on Thanksgiving. She was sitting on our couch reading a copy of The Aeneid that she had plucked from the…
What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title — For me, coming up with titles is always a team effort. Titling my first book, a quirky history of people who look for the Garden of Eden on Earth, had me stumped, until my friend the writer Josh Ga…
PGIM Says Hungary’s Debt Has More Room to Rally After Orban Exit — Hungary’s bonds, the world’s best emerging-market performers in the past months, are set to rally further, according to asset manager PGIM Ltd.
The Last Mozart — At the age of twenty-one, when I was a senior in college majoring in music composition, my friends took to calling me “The Youngest Spy in the World.” I let them. More than that, I leaned into it, …
The Responsible Party — By the time Irv and Kath met, the Oberbach Corporation was ankle-deep in concrete, middle-manning the cheap Chinese labor the city needed to build its demonic underground highway along the river. I…
De la alb/negru la auriu | Maria Anistoroaei | TEDxCopou Youth — Maria Anistoroaei folosește șahul ca metaforă pentru viață, vorbind despre alegeri, eșecuri, perseverență și șansa de a face mereu o mutare mai bună. Din propriile victorii și înfrângeri, ea arată că drumul spre…
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Marka-İnsanın Yolculuğu_The Journey of the Brand-Human | Vildan Şentürk | TEDxAlsancak Salon — Bu konuşma, başarı ve görünürlük çağında insanın da bir marka gibi kurgulanmasını “brand-human” kavramı üzerinden ele alıyor. Marka iletişimi perspektifinden, kişisel konumlanma baskısı
Found a used copy of a book where someone had written corrections in the margins — in different handwriting — arguing with the original annotator across 200 pages. It's like watching two people's conversation unfold.
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19 Creepy Catacombs Around the World You Can Visit — <h2>Explore 18 fascinating catacombs around the world, from Paris and Naples to Malta and Mexico, where history, mystery, and the macabre meet.</h2> <p>Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to…
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Remettons les mains dans la terre | Anthony Maillard | TEDxNantes — Oubliez la simple activité de loisir : jardiner ou (re)mettre les mains en terre sont désormais reconnus comme procurant des bienfaits insoupçonnés, activant en nous des mécanismes biologiques et hormonaux aux…
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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…
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, …
Substack writers, you need a website! — Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. — Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” Th…
theyrule.net — Explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026 — What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but it could also be called democracy.…
A Word or Two — A Word or Two is a column from etymonline.com, about language, history, and word origins.
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A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck — According to Smithsonian Magazine, Sylvia Plath used the Tarot de Marseille deck, which her husband, Ted Hughes, gifted her on her 24th birthday in 1956. It is believed that she also used the Rider…
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Mojito for Mac is a new and free emoji picker with auto-complete - 9to5Mac — Emoji selection on the Mac remains an area ripe for improvement with future versions of macOS. Until then, Mojito is...
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watched my friend explain his joke for five minutes straight. turns out the punchline was that there was no punchline... bombing builds character i guess
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
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On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life — My mother didn’t have the budget for me to compete with the kids who had Jordans or AF1s or who rocked any of the more expensive brands. This was something I had hard feelings about when I was youn…
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Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You — It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool | TechCrunch — After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
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New York’s Hottest Club Is . . . the Jacob Riis Bathhouse? — The Rockaway institution is now home to a flashy new members-only club, with a private pool and a co-working space. But how do the locals feel about it?
How To Write an Email — This is not about grammar. It is about speed, clarity, and judgment.
This American Life — A weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women — The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of…
Babbel Magazine — Stories about language.
Indonesia closes national park in East Java as wildfire expands — Firefighters struggle to battle the growing blaze near Mount Bromo in thick forest and steep terrain.
Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth — My edition of Élisabeth was written by a man called Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. The novel didn’t go far and eventually disappeared from circulation. Sixty years later Gallim…
Europe Looks Up for First Total Eclipse Since 1999 — A total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and northern Spain on Wednesday August 12th, marking the first total eclipse visible from central or western Europe since 1999. Royal Observatory Greenwich…
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country — In one of my earliest memories, I’m shrinking. I’m in the back seat of my parents’ car, face pressed against the window, straining to see the peaks of the mountains outside. The road we’re driving …
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