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…
Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’d been sculpting and drawing since I was sixteen but when, at forty, I started writing short stories and novels, all my …
Arsenal poised - can Newcastle convince Guimaraes for a second time? — Bruno Guimaraes has been Newcastle United's leader, but Arsenal are lurking with intent and could soon try to prise him away. What happens next, and could he yet stay put?
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds — The decision firmly rejected the executive order that Trump issued on the first day of his second term.
TWJC The Royal Tunbridge Wells Juggling Club — Patterns and how-tos.
England heading for series defeat against NZ after chaotic day — England's cricketers are heading for a series defeat after a chaotic fourth day at Trent Bridge in the third Test against New Zealand, where the home side closed on 103-4, needing 270 runs to win and avoid a…
Pakistan Buys Emergency LNG Shipment on Disrupted Qatar Exports — Pakistan purchased a liquefied natural gas shipment for prompt delivery this week as tension in the Strait of Hormuz continues to disrupt Qatari exports to the South Asian nation.
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Alphabet Share New Single "Sense": Listen — London four-piece Alphabet — vocalist/guitarist Milo McNulty, vocalist/bassist Lena Pilshofer, guitarist Tom Sullivan, and drummer George Miles — have been routinely dropping singles since the fall of 2024. Their music is a brooding…
5 Netflix shows that are impossible to stop watching after the first episode — Once you start, you can't stop.
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical t…
Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir — I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you. I don’t want to trick you into feeling an emotion you weren’t planning to feel, or to take …
What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It) — The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom. A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and standing upright. It prefers testimony to atmosphere, co…
I Thought I Had Nothing to Write About. Then I Got a Dog. — A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyone, and yet when she convinced me to say yes to a puppy af…
Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards — This essay began as a plea which turned out, as desires sometimes do, to be a little psychic (“That woman, I conjured her,” says Gwyneth Paltrow’s overwrought Plath in the failed 2003 biopic Sylvia…
I’ll Take the Fire — One night in November 2021, I lost my sense of taste and smell. There was a woman sleeping in my bed. I licked her shoulder, buried my nose in her neck. I moved my face down between her legs. I cou…
Tolkien Reads from “The Hobbit” in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder — “He was Gollum — as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes.”
Damn Interesting — Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005
Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting — To be human is to go through multiple cycles of belief and cynicism throughout your lifetime. To quote the canonic meme guy sitting at a table, debate me. But I think that people my age have grown …
Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026 — “She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Bi…
Paul Skenes' struggles continue as Pirates fall to Phillies — Pirates ace Paul Skenes lasted only four innings against the Phillies on Wednesday night and allowed a season-high seven earned runs in a 10-6 loss.
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Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
Europe buys the future, America builds it — Does that matter? A high-stakes transatlantic spat has erupted over GDP figures
Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations — “In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celeb
What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees — It’s spring in Prague and as I write my desk is covered in pollen. Morning bees browse around my window, foraging for materials. I was recently translating some verses of Virgil, Book IV of the Geo…
Swimming and the Meaning of Life — One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, the late-afternoon sun casting komorebi…
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Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings? — Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …
Korea to Monitor $37 Billion of Overseas Private Credit Exposure — South Korea will monitor overseas private debt investments from the nation that total some $37 billion, the government said, following recent scares in the industry globally.
Don't buy a new car until you've asked these 4 tech questions — Modern cars are packed with apps, subscriptions, trial features, and software updates. Ask these questions before the tech becomes a headache.
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I HAS A BUCKET! — An ancient internet in-joke shrine.
I Asked a Master Chocolatier How to Upgrade Boxed Cake Mix — He Stirs 1 Cup of This Into the Batter — From great to extraordinary.
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
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How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale — Barry Windsor-Smith was one of the most popular creators at Marvel Comics. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics did not look like or read like other comic books. It is important …
A Most “Pleasantly Situated” Estate - NASA Science — The farms and gardens of Mount Vernon played a central role in the life of America’s first president.
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Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2026 — If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop…
Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Most of my books have elements of surrealism or sci-fi or the fantastic—the passenger pigeons mysteriously return, or a ch…
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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life — “In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.”
Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World — Writer Deb Olin Unferth joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to discuss the enduring power of apocalyptic narratives and her new novel Earth 7. The novel follows the life of Dylan, t…
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island — “These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.”
The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! — Satire for the punk scene.
Chips Lead a Stock Rally | Open Interest 6/30/2026 — Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Stocks are on pace for their best quarter in six years as chipmakers power the rally. The yen sinks to a four-decade low,…
True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again — Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the…
Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps? — Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
this guy turned his marginalia from 20 years of reading into a searchable database, so you can see what random thoughts people scribbled in the margins of their favorite books 📚✨
Northampton beat Exeter to win Prem Rugby title — George Hendy's two tries secure Northampton Saints the Prem title with victory over Exeter Chiefs at Allianz Stadium.
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How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way) — A dynamic and innovative society, focused most on launching people into the prime of their lives, depends on taking good care of those aging out of it—if only to keep the threat of gerontocracy…
German row over plan for workers to need sick note on first day of illness — A doctors' group says it "borders on madness" that patients will have to obtain the note in person.
Full Strawberry Moon set to light up night sky — The first full Moon of summer will rise across UK skies this week
I finally got my Trump phone — It’s gold, tacky, and had a tiny scratch straight out of the box.