What It’s Like to Be a Panda — “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Stephen Hawking wondered, recognizing the quixotic nature of his quest for a theory of ever…
'Shadow Homebuyers' Wait on Affordability Improvement — Lisa Sturtevant, Chief Economist at Bright MLS, discusses the current real estate market and how affordability pains are causing 'shadow homebuyers' to wait until rates drop in order to buy. (Source: Bloomberg)
My Awful Mother Is Getting Alzheimer’s. What Do I Owe Her? — The thought of having her live with me makes me physically sick.
Sylvan Esso Share New Single "Hot Slob": Listen — I think of Sylvan Esso as a synth-driven project, so it’s interesting to hear them launch into a new era with such a guitar-driven song. “Hot Slob,” the North Carolina group’s new track out this week, finds the core duo Amelia Mea
Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2026 — Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s relationship to her deck. | Lit Hub Criticism How the expectation that “books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as…
How to Navigate the Labyrinth of Your Mind | Dr. Sweta Adatia | TEDxSGTBKC — NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker's personal views and understanding of the brain, behavior, and mental health, which some viewers may find to be alienating. Theories discussed in…
The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter — Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to d…
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go — “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, r…
The Art of Dignity Beyond Pride: How to Move Through Heartbreak Like Frida Kahlo — “Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her exquisite insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” The price we pay for the risk is the great equalizer of human…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 7th — See today’s Daily Cartoon.
Former Ambassador Cui On Stabilizing US-China Ties — Cui Tiankai, a former Chinese ambassador to the US, explains how the US and China should work toward "constructive strategic stability." Cui, who's also a former vice minister of foreign affairs for China, speaks to Bloomberg o
Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists We’re begging you to let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt The Bell Jar…
Saturn has a big, weird decagon around its south pole — A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there
Lauren Acompora 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections — From birth, we’re surrounded by animals. We cling to stuffed animal friends, wear clothing adorned with bunnies and bears, and listen to stories of anthropomorphized creatures. The first books we e…
Massive Classic Camera Fair Kicks Off In Ginza, Tokyo This Weekend — A massive classic camera fair is taking place this weekend in Ginza, Tokyo that will feature a huge array of used cameras.
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 10th — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation — Remembering a time when the US Forest Service fought price gouging on our publicly owned ski slopes
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor — At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 10th — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Everlane and the Death of the “Good” Millennial Life-Style Brand — The retailer once embodied a hope that clothes could be mass-manufactured and high-quality. Now it’s owned by the fast-fashion giant Shein.
How Sonos rebooted itself — CEO Tom Conrad on cleaning up Sonos’ app redesign mess and turning a speaker company into a software platform.
On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York — Scenario 1 I land in Jakarta just in time for Chinese New Year. I can smell the cigarette smoke and rain before the plane even touches the tarmac; my body retrieves memories faster than my mind can…
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners? - Longreads — "In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace."
Rachel Syme Loves a Good Yarn — Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us — Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Niela Orr on Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Lily Meyer on Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End, Jonathan Derbyshire on Emily Eakin’s The French…
A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age — Where does the “literariness” in literary biography belong? With the book’s subject—or its author? Traditionally, it’s attached to both, and to a third element too. Literary biography a…
Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I am an unapologetic collector of gossip. Bring me your tales of accidental reply-all, familial faux-pas, sartorial misadv…
Counterpoint: most 'AI safety' papers are just expensive noise, but this one maps how models actually hallucinate in real time, which is actually useful.
Lit Hub Daily: July 23, 2026 — Kōhei Saitō examines why solutions rooted in capitalism will never stop climate change: “The metabolic relationship between humans and nature was once a cycle—a process that could be represen…
Lit Hub Weekly: August 24 – 28, 2026 — “Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.” Steven Thrasher on the killing Jason Arday. | Lit Hub Politics Long live Dolly Parton, American icon, giver of books.…
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever — Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older — A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment…
* Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor — Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor. Download page for book.
Merci, Marjane: What the <em<Persepolis Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile — I’m in my car, in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in South Pasadena. On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’…
Amy Bonnaffons on the Georgia Review‘s Spring 2024 Issue — October 2025 Dear Chillsubs writers, I hope you enjoyed your first back issue! This time we’re sharing our issue from Spring 2024, which features fiction by Munachim Amah, Renée Hayek, Lilia Shrayf…
The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It — It’s difficult to say with certainty when the last eastern elk was killed, but most accounts agree that Jim Jacobs pulled the trigger. Known as “The Seneca Bear Hunter,” Jacobs had killed hundreds …
Leila and Kahled — The sunlight streaming through the arrival hall windows was a dirty gold the afternoon our flight from Paris landed. The airport’s walkways, draped in stock images of healthy, smiling families, sub…
Google Books (or similar) all book scans — $200,000 bounty (#234) · Issues · AnnaArchivist / annas-archive · GitLab — Please read https://annas-archive.li/volunteering#bounties carefully before working on a bounty. Google Books has lots of scanned books, but which are only...
The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore — Three prominent historians discuss a national milestone arriving in the midst of a politically charged conflict over how Americans see the past. It’s a “goat rodeo,” Lepore says.
The best free food deals this week: Save on McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Krispy Kreme, and more — How to eat for free this week using app hacks.
How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte — The cultivation of sweet-tasting foodstuffs has shaped Caribbean history for five hundred years. And in the late 1800s, after slavery’s end in the British islands, sugar was joined by another cash …
How young people feel about American identity, on the nation's 250th birthday — Listen to the best student podcasts about what "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" means for young people today.
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.”
10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future — During graduate school, I finished the novel that found me an agent—but when my agent submitted it to publishers, all twenty of them turned the manuscript down. Truthfully, it was closer to a colle…
Apple Surprise and Shine event: What to expect — A new CEO, iPhones, a possible foldable and more could make Apple's September event one to remember.
Ukraine Attacks Ship Used to Repair Key Black Sea Oil Moorings — Ukraine attacked a small service ship involved in planned repair works at the key CPC oil terminal in the Black Sea, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The facility is vital to Kazakstan’s crude exports.
Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss — “Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the No…
Everything we know (so far) about Billie Eilish’s Bell Jar. — Earlier this year, we got wind that Billie Eilish—that reigning maestra of youthful melancholy—will star in a new film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Directed by the brilliant Sa…
France Champagne Output Set to Halve on Heat Waves and Drought — France’s Champagne output is set to fall by almost half from 2025 as extreme weather batters yields.
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…
Lit Hub Daily: August 20, 2026 — What did Charles Darwin draw inspiration from? Orchids, of course. | Lit Hub Science On the surprising sensitivity and perceptiveness of plants. | Lit Hub Nature “Something is off in J. D. Va…
Dortmund agree loan move for Arsenal's Nwaneri — German club Borussia Dortmund agree a deal with Arsenal to sign Ethan Nwaneri on a season-long loan.
Recommended Reading: 'Ultimate Collector Watches' From Taschen Offers A Scholarly Approach To Watch Books — More than just pictures, the new two-volume set features in-depth research on some of the rarest watches in the world.
Isaac Chotiner on Deep Knowledge and Gotcha Interviews — Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
Love Anyway — You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that…
Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have always loved television, but as a kid, television was the “idiot box.” According to experts, this devic…
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56 — French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Only trouble is interesting, and what causes more trouble for us humans than our love lives? With love, we’re leaping into…