What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler, and Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book r…
Home - Snap Judgment — Snap Judgment. with Glynn Washington. Mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, and dramatic radio. Hosted by Glynn Washington.
Diatoms and the Meaning of Life — In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas - NASA — Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program:
Transom — Fostering the Art of Audio Storytelling
How Great Are These Wedding Photos?! | Cup of Jo — “Being a wedding photographer is like reading a really good book every…
“The Rival” — It was winter when Laura left her husband without warning, and summer when she returned. A livid evening, fluorescent sunset; she was standing, dazed by the heat, outside her house. The curtains of…
The Business of Watches Podcast: Benjamin Arabov, CEO Of Jacob & Co. — A watch brand we don't always cover on Hodinkee is growing sales and volumes with its polarizing products and unique take on horology. Plus, we need your business-related questions for next week's Q&A episode!
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI — The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015
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 …
Watch Oil In Focus As US-Iran Peace Talks Show Signs of Progress | The Asia Trade 6/22/2026 - Bloomberg — "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn…
May 11, 2026 – macOS 27, Apple-Intel deal — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
The Knicks have taken over New York City — and the internet — The trees are greener, the sun is brighter, and the people are friendlier, according to posts online.
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go — This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The…
“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 …
LearnOutLoud.com - Audio Books, Podcasts, & Videos to Learn From — LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 50,000 educational audio books, podcasts, and videos.
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
NASA's New 300-Megapixel Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches Into Space — Roman has an incredible camera!
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…
Tuchel credits 'committed' Ghana defending after England draw — England manager Thomas Tuchel says England found it "difficult" to break down Ghana's defence, after the two teams played out a 0-0 draw at the 2026 World Cup.
The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive — “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to…
Hudson Williams has pretty good taste in books. — Hudson Williams, the Canadian sweetheart behind the smash hit Heated Rivalry, has pledged his allegiance to the English department. Your favorite hockey hunk is a reader, people. And we must say, t…
Barcelona move a dream for Gordon 'since he was three' — Anthony Gordon is unveiled as a Barcelona player after joining the La Liga champions from Newcastle United in a deal worth more than £69.3m.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2026 — Zach St. George explores the wild scams of Australia’s snake venom con men. | Lit Hub History How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob Ferguson brought environmental liberation of the fae variety …
Aces' Wilson ruled out of Commissioner's Cup championship game — A'ja Wilson has been ruled out of the Las Vegas Aces' matchup Tuesday against the New York Liberty in the Commissioner's Cup championship game due to a right leg injury.
A reparative mini-reading list, in honor of America’s 250th. — Happy (belated) 250th, America! We’re not exactly in the party mood this rainy Monday, but que sera. This weekend brought Washington a militaristic display, and most states a conundrum: how d…
Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever — 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. Christi…
The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now — “Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, later, “I pry this int…