易亚婷：那个照见我的，是我自己写出来的AI | Yating Yi | TEDxXiamen — 真正照见你的不是AI，而是你亲手写进算法里的，属于自己的灵魂微光。 Partner of 43AI Group and founder of YilunAI This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at…
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep — Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the…
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…
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.
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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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…
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…
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…
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.
The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover - The Old New Thing — Not doing the reading.
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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 …
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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…
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.”
watched a guy spend 20 minutes explaining to his therapist why he can't stop watching videos of people organizing their fridges, gg
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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 …
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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
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…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
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 …
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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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.
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.”
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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.
Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer. — Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up y…
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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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…
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…
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.
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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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.”
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Pro-Palestine protest held at oldest colonial building in South Africa — To commemorate the Nakba, protesters in Cape Town staged a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians.
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 📚✨
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…
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,…
The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! — Satire for the punk scene.
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…
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 …
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 …
Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality — Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from …
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 …
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?
Full Strawberry Moon set to light up night sky — The first full Moon of summer will rise across UK skies this week
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…
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…
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 …