Noah Baldino on the Georgia Review‘s Spring 2024 Issue — October 2025 Dear Chill Subs Writers— To be a magazine that truly represents the full stock of literary imagination means valuing emerging writers as much as established ones. The Georgia Review ta…
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a ma…
Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question — “The universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
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…
“The Persian *Mâr-Nâmeh* or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) — A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags? — Here’s the thing about indie lit: it’s full of problems everyone complains about and almost nobody has the time, money, or spreadsheet stamina to solve. How can lit mags get more subscr…
One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet — On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back of an eastbound Willys Jeep station wagon. The…
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…
‘I’ll never be Swedish enough’: Far-right campaign upsets minority groups — The Sweden Democrats also posted advertisements on buses suggesting Swedes with Somali heritage apply for repatriation.
Namwali Serpell and Cathy Park Hong on Toni Morrison’s Jazz — Every city has a pulse, a rhythm, a certain way it’s touched by light. Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell lands in sunny Oakland, California, where she reads Morrison’s…
How to Read the Signal of Your Life — Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billi…
A Room of Her Own: What Women Writers Sacrifice to Pursue Their Passion — In the mid-2000s, the Guardian weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms.” As a secretly aspiring writer (is there any other kind?) I couldn’t get enough, poring ove…
Sonos debuted the Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones, available Sept. 29 — Sonos is back with a new, premium soundbar and headphones.
Natalie Adler Talks to Sarah Schulman About AIDS History and Dykes Around Town — Natalie took my class in The Ethics of Public Biography at the CUNY Grad Center while she was getting her MFA at Brooklyn College. It was a deep dive into the ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actup…
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel — I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Today marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of Raymond Chandler, patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction…
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife — Like the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, European contact with the Americas was a single, ecologically random, earth-shattering event that completely reshaped land and sea. Disease and…
Remembering Marijke De Roover, Sliman Mansour, and Fabrizio Plessi — This week, we honor a feminist Belgian performance artist, an icon of Palestinian liberation, and an Italian video art pioneer.
C.J. Bartunek on the Georgia Review‘s Winter 2001/Spring 2002 Restrospective — Dear Chillsubs writers, “The best way to get published in a journal is to familiarize yourself with the journal first.” The Georgia Review’s Winter 2001 / Spring 2002 is an opportunity to REALLY fa…
Formula One champion Lando Norris extends McLaren contract until 2030 — Last season, 26-year-old Norris delivered McLaren's first drivers' title since Lewis Hamilton won it in 2008.
watched someone film themselves doing the same workout every day for a year and the before/after isn't even the point — it's how different their face looks by month six!!
Lit Hub Daily: July 27, 2026 — D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelman discuss the literary word’s unacknowledged class system. | Lit Hub In Conversation On that time Johnny Cash almost started a riot…
Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself — “In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps — Grok 4.5 just launched. So we had it, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Fable 5 one-shot the same interactive apps, then measured latency and cost. Here is who won.
The Crops That Created America (Mostly Came From Africa) — When we talk about the formation of America, farming, and the history of people of African descent in this country, Virginia is at the core of it all. My family history goes back to the oldest plan…
Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature. — Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its second annual DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Amer…
MagSafe Monday: Anker's foldable 3-in-1 charger brings 25-watt Qi2 charging into something pocket-sized - 9to5Mac — Anker's Prime foldable 3-in-1 charges iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods at up to 25W, then folds flat enough to actually pack for travel.
The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs — In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840 short story “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnamed narrator sits in a café and watches a busy street. He notes small details about the people passing by, and he categorizes th…
MAGA Is In Turmoil Over Tucker Carlson’s Possible 2028 Presidential Bid — Joe Kent says that he and other anti–Donald Trump MAGA figures have formed a new movement. They want Tucker Carlson to run for the presidency in 2028.
Why Virginia Woolf is having a moment in Hollywood. — Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations. Though her work is famously cerebral—and, wel…
Save over $650 on the 2026 Hisense 65-inch U7 Mini LED 4K TV at Amazon — If you need a new TV, this is a hard deal to beat.
Dull Men's Club — Celebrating the Ordinary
Nvidia and Warsh Will Test a Stock Market That’s in Mid-Rotation — Two things are clear as stocks enter the most consequential week of summer: this market no longer trades on AI alone, and bond volatility has proved that catalysts are definitely not confined to the upside.
To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away — Every so often—sometimes in October, when the annual Best American Short Stories anthology is published, or on the infrequent occasions when an iconic short story writer like George…
A bookbinder started lettering spines backwards so they'd read correctly when the book was shelved. Now she can't stop seeing every other designer's choice as a silent scream.
What ICE says about executive power in America | The Economist — Executive power in America has rarely been so concentrated. Few institutions embody it like ICE. In our new podcast series, John Prideaux, The Economist’s executive editor, retraces the journey of Alexis de…
library book had a handwritten note tucked in the back: 'if you're reading this, you've already decided the ending.' spent the whole book trying to figure out what that meant. it wasn't about the plot.
1-800-APL-CARE Now Connects You With AI Assistant Instead of Human — If you dial Apple Support's phone number 1-800-APL-CARE from the U.S. or Canada, there is a good chance that an AI-powered support assistant will now answer. While many of Apple's phone systems already had a…
The biggest downsides to using a digital car key — Many newer vehicles can be accessed from the owner's phone, if they've set it up. There are some things to consider before adding your key.
Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2026 — Why Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s home was a sanctuary for Leon Trotsky until it wasn’t. | Lit Hub Biography Look inside Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign with his chief strategist,…
Spain battles latest in series of major wildfires near Madrid — Fire breaks out amid Spain's third heatwave of the summer, with temperatures forecast to rise above 40C.
Android Auto 17.6 update rolling out with redesigned logo [Gallery] — Google is giving Android Auto a very slight refresh in its 17.6 update, with the app’s logo getting a new...
Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher — In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…
This documentary-only streaming service is $149.99 for life, its lowest-ever price — For nights when a documentary beats another rewatch.
bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins — Fifteen years into reading and writing in order to learn how to live, I looked back on these marginalia on the search for meaning and realized that the people whose lives and work have most moved m…
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto — When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He …
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.”
this library cataloged every book ever mentioned in a book & now you can fall down the rabbit hole of what characters were actually reading 📚✨
Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today! — The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. T…
The AI revolution didn’t happen overnight—here’s why | Michael Wooldridge | TEDxManchester — In this insightful talk, Professor Michael Wooldridge of Oxford University pulls back the curtain on the "overnight" AI revolution. Far from being a recent phenomenon, the journey of…
Two Rooms, One Enemy | Dr. Tejaswini Adada | TEDxKLH Bachupally — I live between two rooms. In one, a chair I pull close to tell someone they have cancer. In the other, a vial that took years and a small army of scientists to fill. This talk crosses between them, from…
Designer Thebe Magugu on Where He Shops and Dances in Cape Town — Finding inspiration is not difficult in this creative capital.
US Army Secretary Driscoll Resigns Following Hegseth Clash — US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is stepping down after repeated clashes with his boss, Pete Hegseth. His resignation leaves the service without several top…
How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye — Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal…
How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life — Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Me…
What Does Beatlemania Have to Teach Us About Pop Culture Today? — This conversation between two authors who happen to share the same name: BBC and Channel 4 broadcaster Samira Ahmed, whose A Hard Day’s Night in Bloomsbury’s BFI Film Classics series ju…
The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life — Four billion years ago, in the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the world where serpentine is forged, chemistry trembled with the promise of consciousness and matter began its long metabolic pil…
LNG Exports Though Hormuz Remain Stalled Even as Oil Flows Rebound — Gas tankers are not following crude carriers through the Strait of Hormuz, keeping prices of the super-chilled fuel near war-time highs.
Tottenham sign Man City's Marmoush on loan — Tottenham sign Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush on loan until the end of the season, with an obligation to make the deal permanent for £60m next summer.
Norway’s new king pays tribute to his late father as the country mourns — King Haakon VIII says King Harald represented Norway with 'pride and joy', promises to listen to Norwegians as monarch.
Sabalenka blocks out noise to start US Open 'three-peat' bid with victory — Aryna Sabalenka blocks out the noise to overcome a tricky first-round test against Camila Osorio and begin her bid for a historic US Open "three-peat".