I Bring My Famous Cowboy Beans to Every Summer BBQ — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2024-05-cowboy-beans/cowboy-beans-280-horizontal"> They’re always the first dish gone. <a…
Tu carrera no será la que planeaste, sino la que elegiste | Andrea Molina | TEDxAnahuac U Veracruz — Tomamos miles de decisiones todos los días, pero algunas nos paralizan porque sentimos que pueden definir toda nuestra vida. Andrea Molina García nos invita a reconciliarnos con…
Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK — Today in London a who’s who of the literary world will be observing what may be the inaugural memorial day for the late playwright Tom Stoppard. Celebrations center around the renaming of the Duke …
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What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common? — Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city was quiet and my th…
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music — “Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event — Upstairs, a language is dying. Nonna is in bed—al lett—and we are in the living room, waiting for the swelling in her legs—i gamb’—to go down. Mum and I rushed here from the other side of London wh…
¿Qué cambia cuando le abrimos espacios al skateboarding? | Óscar Piñeres | TEDxBucaramanga — El deporte (en particular, uno tan "cool" como el skateboarding) puede ser una herramienta muy efectiva para llegar a las juventudes en situación de vulnerabilidad y ayudarles a dar un gi
This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he h…
On the Other Side Is March — I’m a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife and lover doing it all, meeting every demand, and then some, just with my left hand.…
Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib on Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon — For the launch of Ohio’s year-long, state-wide celebration of Toni Morrison, Namwali Serpell flies to Columbus to talk with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib. With the help of the audience, they r…
Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children — Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby — Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell travels to Philadelphia to talk with writer Angela Flournoy about a scene from Tar Baby. Speaking at the Free Library, they trace the novel’…
Did You Know FDR Was Present For the Most Famous At-Bat in Baseball History? — Franklin Roosevelt and Anton Cermak had achieved a certain fusion in the public imagination four and a half months earlier, on October 1, 1932, when they sat together in a box at Wrigley Field, whe…
AI Can’t Make Nature | Pedro Marques | TEDxUniversity of Montana Western — As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, conservation leader Pedro Marques argues that our greatest resource isn't technology—it's our connection to the land and the people who know it best. Drawing
Here are the winners of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards. — The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the…
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance — One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…
How to build a campaign people believe in | Máirtín Mac Gabhann | TEDxBlack Mountain — How to Build a Campaign People Believe In In this TEDx talk, Máirtín Mac Gabhann shares the story behind Donate4Dáithí and the campaign that helped change organ donation law in Northern…
Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier) — Let’s be honest about something: the fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to have finished your novel. Writing …
Destroyer, Stephin Merritt to Headline Bazooka! Fest — Times New Viking, Joanna Sternberg, Sad13, and Asher White round up the lineup
Pogacar loses yellow jersey in Tour de France heat — Mads Pedersen sprints clear from a breakaway to win the fourth stage of the Tour de France.
Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading? — “The part of ourselves that matters, when it matters, is outside time… Think of yourself simply as an instrument capable of whatever experiments in beauty or truth you wish to perform, and yo…
We made stones think. Now what? | Rammi Dgham | TEDxUlica Mińska — Десятилетиями прогресс ИИ был открытым вопросом; теперь это неоспоримая экспонента. Рамми Дгхам показывает, как закон Мура превратил кремний в "думающие камни" — и как способности ИИ теперь удваиваются не за 6,…
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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…
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 …
July’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, and Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought …
this library lets you read the margins people wrote in old books hundreds of years ago. seeing someone's actual handwriting react to a sentence from 1743 is weirdly intimate 📖
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. — Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” Th…
The End of an Era - Hugh Howey — We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere.…
The Drugs Work, just not for Everyone | Hanna Maria Kariis | TEDxUniversity of Tartu — "The goal is not medicine that works for the average patient. The goal is medicine that works for the person receiving the treatment." Drawing on Estonia's biobank of over 200,000…
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…
Why Personalities Don't Have Genders | Hanaeri Kim | TEDxPOWIIS Youth — Through her personal encounters, Hanaeri challenged gender stereotypes and discussed how shoe-horning genders into specific behavioural and societal expectations may adversely impact people. She discusses…
Here’s the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th — Frederick Douglass’ great lecture “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” delivered on July 5th, 1852, to a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall, captured the contradicti…
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,…
Is Moby-Dick the Greatest American Novel? — Near the beginning of his long narrative poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” W. H. Auden writes, “I want a form that’s large enough to swim in.” So too, apparently, did Herman Melv…
On the Speed of Animals, Airborne and Earthbound — Animals move in all manner of ways, not all of which fit in the three big categories of mobility: running, flying, swimming. Some organisms are subjected to passive locomotion, carried by water or…
The Internet Archive is quietly digitizing every library card catalog ever made... and you can search them all in one place. Weird rabbit hole if you like old classification systems.
On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back — In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with somethi…
Lit Hub Daily: June 18, 2026 — Through layers of loss and sorrow, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the bleakest times, art, writing, and human connection are ra…
L'architettura dell'attesa | Mattia Pagnini | TEDxLiceo Marconi Pesaro Youth — Perché un accordo sospeso ci mette in tensione? Perché una melodia che conosciamo ci dà piacere? E perché una nota “sbagliata” può catturare immediatamente la nostra attenzione? Attraverso musica,…
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity — “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are — “Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and…
Domus outdoor lighting collection by Joan Gaspar for Marset — <p>Dezeen Showroom: the appearance of internally illuminated houses informed this outdoor lighting collection by designer Joan Gaspar for Spanish brand Marset. Named Domus, the collection comprises a series of asymmetr
"Ideas para repensar el alto rendimiento" | Leandro Antonelli | TEDxBarrioSanNicolasSalon — Leandro Antonelli es líder del negocio de Agencias de Publicidad de Google en Argentina, además dentro de la compañía lideró el equipo regional de Plataformas de Marketing y también las…
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AIと共に作る未来へ、今すべきこと | 祐一郎 島田 | TEDxKeio High School — AIがこれからより普及する社会にあたってAIとの向き合い方についてお話ししていただきました。AIの仕組みからその利用法まで幅広くご紹介いただき、今後の社会への影響やその可能性について解説されています。 1999年、慶應義塾大学卒業。 卒業後、広告コンサルティング会社にて外資系クライアントのB2Cマーケティング・サイエンスに従事。2003年、マイクロソフト株式会社に入社後、デジタルマーケティングによる日本独自のB2Bオンライン・サービスを立ち上げ、顧客…
Would You Chat With an A.I. 'Ghost' of a Deceased Loved One? New Research Suggests That the Tech Can Provide Comfort and Closure — Commercial "griefbots" are becoming more popular, and many experts have questions about their psychological and ethical impacts. A new study aims…
Hyundai reportedly looking to take total control of robotics giant Boston Dynamics — Hyundai could soon own Boston Dynamics in full.
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
An Imaginary Throuple Saved My Writing Career — Let’s say throughout my twenties, all I did—literally—was write; whatever I could, in hopes my parents might read it, see me, grow up, and care. Let’s say throughout my twenties, I published three …
Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction — When I consider my father, who disappeared almost entirely from my life in my infancy, I think of what I don’t know. I don’t remember his hands, or his voice, how he formed arguments, whether he wa…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Colin Asher’s The Midnight Special, Hamilton Cain on Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair, Michael Donkor on Keith Ridgway’s Dooneen, Stephen…
Trump targets birthright citizenship again — US President Donald Trump has signed two new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 29 – July 3, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub Histo…