Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota by Thomas John Weber — May 21, 2026 – “A tech company worth trillions is fighting, hard, to transform Pine Island, a town whose Wikipedia page claims just two notable people: Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, and Lu
How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older — “In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
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…
Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 | Blog | HeyOnCall — How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync.
“Boring Tree” — I feel like I’m being followed by a woman. She has the kind of gait where her feet point a bit outwards, and she kicks them with a little huff to get more from every step, only to land heavy on the…
Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58. — Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58. A leader in both France and Iran, Satrapi lived and wrote at a cul…
Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026 — What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe,…
Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees by Nicolette Polek — June 3, 2026 – “Isn’t it a kind of arrogance to believe that anything can be exempt from the deeply tangled and patterned networks of reality?”
What to read next if you loved I Love Boosters. — Last weekend, Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters hit theaters, blowing a breath of fresh air into the American cinema. Riley, the funkmaster filmmaker behind 2018’s Sorry to Bother You, is b…
Hawkish Fed Throws Down Challenge for Emerging-Market Bond Rally — Just when it looked like emerging-market bonds would catch a break from falling energy prices, along came Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to spoil the party.
Novelist Teddy Wayne Explores Themes of Power and Marriage Dynamics in 'The Au Pair' — Teddy Wayne, author of new novel 'The Au Pair,' said that he wanted to explore marriage dynamics and the way that his male main character reacts to his lack of success and feelings of…
“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness — “Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mom said, with a big silly grin. After only three months, my father was back in my life. And it was all because of the n-word.…
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…
Historic Mysteries — Puzzles of the past.
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) …
Zanagrams - free daily word puzzle — A free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it.
The Cousin Returns - Longreads — On coming home to the Philippines.
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life — “Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.”
Lit Hub Daily: May 29, 2026 — Sara Youngblood Gregory looks at the speculative possibilities of queer literature and the last decade of AIDS writing. | Lit Hub Criticism “I invite you to enter the ball pit of your imagination, …
A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service’s The Cremation of Sam McGee is a lyrical poem lodged deeply in the folds of my brain—but, naively, unconsciously, I figured my brother was the only other living soul who could say t…
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
Mind-Blowing Life Hacks to Rectify Reflecting-Pool Problems! — Kiss unwanted algae goodbye!
Lucy Sante on An Anthology of New York Poets — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. The new…
Existentialist Embroidery — The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geome…
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James — “It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
watched a deep sea fish get pulled up and it just... deflated like a balloon. turns out the pressure difference does that. never thought about what the ocean is actually holding down there
Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2026 — Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History It’s finally your chance to snag books by Slutty Cheff, Nicholas Boggs, Benedict Nguyen, and more in paperback. | L…
Proton's privacy-focused Lumo chatbot gets image generation — Proton has launched a major upgrade for its Lumo chatbot, giving it image generation and editing capabilities.
This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in…
Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities — Greg Sarris’s first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first …
EU Allows Room for Energy Crisis Aid, But With a Green Emphasis — The European Union will give extra budget leeway to member states to cope with high energy prices stoked by the Iran war, so long as it helps curb consumption of fossil fuels.
Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem — For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using…
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (Al…
Mapped: The Most Popular Beer in Every U.S. State (the Answers Surprised Us!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Design/2026/06-2026/popular-beer-map/6-26--k-popular-beer-in-every-state-lead"> Did your favorite make the cut? <a…
Of Course the Pope Is a Natural at Memes — Pope Leo XIV is the perfect vessel for 6-7 and other internet trends, where juxtaposition — and sparring with Trump — boost virality.
Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page — To examine the increasing similarities between television storytelling and literary fiction—particularly their shared emphasis on complex characters and challenging themes—I recently spoke with…