Why Black Americans Need Reparations Now — As a Haitian American, I have heard stories of resistance from my elders starting at the tender age of three. The accounts were often told through fairy tales, but as I grew older, the message beca…
Every literary(ish) person who attended Taylor Swift’s wedding. — Usually when I hear about a party thrown by the most famous person in the world, I don’t immediately assume that someone like me should be there. What does make me think that delusional thought is …
What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles? — Close to forty years ago, Derek Walcott wrote something scathing about V.S. Naipaul. The two writers—both from the Caribbean, both Nobel laureates—were still alive then. Walcott wrote the following…
James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe — “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each o
Kash Patel's clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked | TechCrunch — According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.
Read the First Reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. — Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the disappearance of French writer, journalist, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. On July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry took off in an unarmed P-38 on his ninth re…
How This Major Grocery Store Chain Became a Cult-Favorite — Aldi has long been known for its low prices even on items like wagyu ground beef. But the European grocery giant also has a loyal fanbase that follows its famed aisle of limited-time, unexpected finds. US Chief…
Apple Touts Faster Core Software Features Across Devices — Apple at WWDC 2026 today said it has made several responsiveness improvements across its software ecosystem, speeding up system animations, app launching, and much more. Apple says that launching iPhone and iPad apps is u
This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in…
Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2026 — S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space…
Beatport — Music for DJs.
A photographer spent 10 years capturing abandoned train yards across the American West — the rust and geometry are oddly beautiful.
Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2026 — Why every American writer “must in their prose or poetry pen their own Declaration of Independence,” unconsciously or otherwise. | Lit Hub Criticism Rosa Montero explores the relationship between w…
The Shift Inside Us | Rohan Krishna | TEDxShanghai Singapore Intl School — Rohan explores how short-form content, slang, and constant stimulation may be reshaping the way his generation thinks and communicates. He argues that reclaiming boredom and uninterrupted thought can…
A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers — In certain borghi (small medieval villages) in Lunigiana several centuries ago, some impoverished mountain people, pushed by necessity, began climbing the arduous paths of the Apennines and then de…
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” — Thick into the edits to my time-travel-rom-com novel set in the Regency era about two sisters who couldn’t be more different (one loves Jane Austen, one loves Skims), my gentle editor suggested I r…
The 13 Best Book Covers of July — Another month of books, another month of book covers. In July, things were obscured. Things were omitted. Things blurred, stretched, melted, smoked. Well, it’s midsummer, after all. I hope yo…
Why Americans can’t seem to quit Little House on the Prairie. — This month, a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House on the Prairie arrives on Netflix. The reboot’s timing is auspicious. 2026 saw the apex of the tradwife dis…
New 25% tariffs on foreign drones make a bad situation worse for US buyers — New models were already effectively banned, but the ones that are still available will now be more expensive.
Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026 — What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but it could also be called democracy.…
Watch the chic, menacing trailer for Bret Easton Ellis’s new FX series. — Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You old lightning rod. The Gen X nihilist known for anchoring the literary Brat Pack and depicting depraved superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. With the …
Demon Sacrifices and Sailing the Fae Seas: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — There’s nothing like a summer reading challenge to get you into the proper mindset for the season. Many of us grew up on personal pizzas as the reward for reading a certain number of books; these d…
Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs? — The history of art in general, and literature in particular, is full of alcoholics, opium addicts, cocaine users, and junkies of all sorts. And the process is always the same: the chemical muse kil…
Medical Artists Association of Great Britain (MAA) — The Medical Artists Association of Great Britain provide illustration services that specialise in anatomy, science and medicine.
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media — I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commer…
Thypoch's New Simera-C 16mm T1.9 Is its Widest Cinema Lens Yet — The widest (and slowest) Simera-C lens yet.
Lit Hub Daily: July 30, 2026 — Roger Celestin on writing about not being able to go home when “exiles belong to a world of smaller numbers.” | Lit Hub Craft Why “biblical notions of the wilderness” taught…
This Olight flashlight has a spotlight, floodlight, UV, and laser—and actually uses all of them well — An EDC perfect for any situation.
Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide — During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where…
“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley — I first started reading Grace Paley in the weeks after my second novel was published, as I sought refuge from refreshing Goodreads, from waiting for the Booker Prize Committee to phone. Reading the…
Gen Z is Officially the DUMBEST Generation — In the AI singularity, Gen Z has no use for brains in a post-intellectual society. 🌊 Join our private group https://techleadpro.com Your Community for Crypto, Stocks, DeFi & Tech. Get the inside track on crypto and stock trading,…
This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys. — Have you ever wondered how long those nice people were actually stranded on the Orient Express? Or speculated about the carriage distance from London to Longbourn? Well, dear reader, have I got a t…
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life — “To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
the library of congress catalogs what words were actually used in each year. watching 'google' jump from zero to omnipresent between 1998 and 2002 is something else
Three black holes discovered in a young galaxy for the first time — Three massive black holes have been found in a galaxy that existed during the earliest times of the universe
Bond Traders Finally Get Single View of Activity in UK Market — Bond investors gained access to a single stream of UK trading data after a transparency initiative that’s been years in the making went live.
1935 Duesenberg SSJ Special Speedster Wins 2026 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Best of Show — The sun has set on the 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Sunday event is the grand finale of Monterey Car Week, and the Best of Show award is the grand finale to…
Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages — There are times in a person’s life when the end of the week brings a welcome flurry of messages or phone calls: about parties, club nights, secret gigs, off-beat theatre shows, or just a cheesy but…
Georgia O’Keeffe on What It Means to Be an Artist — “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”
this guy wrote a whole book about why we're all terrible at reading books & honestly?? the self-roast hit different 💀📚
Lit Hub Daily: August 5, 2026 — Maybe you just need a writing date with Rumpelstiltskin. | Lit Hub Craft On Etna, The Call of the Wild, and the enduring appear of the canine narrator. | Lit Hub Criticism Margrét Ann Thors on writ…
Eclipse warning: The key signs you may have damaged your eyes — Symptoms after looking at the sun without eclipse glasses can include blurred vision
On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota — The black-and-white booklet is meant to fit easily in a pocket or slip into the palm of a polite stranger, anyone whose willingness to make eye contact left them open to learning about race relatio…
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’…
Book Corners — Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots.
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…
The Three Elements of the Good Life — To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and somet…
As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism — Hannah Arendt’s 1936 lectures in Paris, where she had spent the past year and a half, were the first signals to the émigré population at large that she still had something to say. They were her…
Villa begin Suzuki talks - Sunday's gossip — Aston Villa are in negotiations over Zion Suzuki, boosting Juventus' hope of signing Emiliano Martinez, while Arsenal are told price for Victor Osimhen, plus more.
How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All) — We don’t know their names. We almost certainly never will. But beginning on February 11, 2022 108 healthy adults from across the United States performed an act of selfless generosity. Twelve went f…
The 11 NBA players on the Basketball Hall of Fame's waiting list — There's only one NBA player in this year's class, but these stars -- including the recently retired Russell Westbrook -- should hear their names called in the near future.
A.O.C.’s Eggs and the Working Woman’s Inconvenient Truth — By preserving her fertility, the youngest woman elected to Congress is facing trade-offs familiar to many women. By doing it publicly, she’s driving conservatives crazy.
Today's Android app deals and freebies: Old Man's Journey, Roundguard, ELOH, more — Your afternoon lineup of the best Android game and app deals is now ready to roll, including titles like Old...
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” — A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
Lakers Deal Caps Billionaire Rush Into Sports — Bob Iger and Josh Kushner moved from pursuing a Las Vegas NBA expansion team to agreeing within days to buy the Los Angeles Lakers in a record $12.5 billion deal. Bloomberg News Host of Sports City Randall Williams is on Bloomberg…
5 features I always change on every Google Pixel phone — It only takes a few minutes to fix, and once you do, you'll wonder why these weren't the defaults in the first place.
June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Dog’s Gaze, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s The Book of Birds, and Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys all feature among the best reviewed nonfict…
Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today! — The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy.…
How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts — “We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…”
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Paul Yoon’s Etna, Dave Zirin’s The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, and Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur all feature among the best reviewed books of the w…