The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought — In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist n
Algeria and Austria both qualify for last 32 after dramatic injury-time goals — Algeria and Austria each score injury-time goals in a 3-3 draw, a result which sees both sides qualify from Group J and into the last 32 of the FIFA World Cup.
'Suggested Genmoji' Are Coming to an iPhone Near You — Apple wants users to look again at their use of generative Genmoji in iOS 27, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Genmoji is an Apple Intelligence feature that lets you use AI to generate all-new emoji characters based on
Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level? — The following is from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. _______________________________ Excerpted from Poking the Squid: What We Can Lea…
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism — Roughly a decade ago, shortly after I moved from Seattle to a nearby suburb, I slid into a bipolar mixed episode for a period of a month or so before it descended into straight depression. During m…
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…
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Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026 — What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe,…
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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
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…
An “Intellectual Monster…” Why Muriel Spark Never Married — High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…
Christian Pulisic subs on as U.S. loses to Türkiye on last kick — After starting the World Cup with two performances full of incredible verve and vibrancy, the United States finished their group stage with a showing that was erratic and inconsistent in a match that had little…
Tata Starbucks CEO To Add Up to 100 Stores — Tata Starbucks CEO Sushant Dash plans to add up to 100 stores in the short term. In an exclusive conversation, Dash adds that they are firm on maintaining the market share of 30%. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Google announces Wear OS 7 with Live Updates, widgets, more — A significant lineup of changes is coming to Pixel Watches with Wear OS 7, as Google announces the new wearable...
Video captures Russian attack in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia — Surveillance camera video captured the moment a Russian drone strike caused a blast in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Pace Gallery’s Hall of Mirrors — Despite a tightly controlled narrative, the mega-gallery’s downsizing has left more questions than answers, with some workers and artists describing a disorienting experience.
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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…
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A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction — As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a car, roll the wind…
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Arsenal 1-0 Burnley: Mikel Arteta post-match interview — Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta feels his side played some of their "best football" of the season in their hard-fought 1-0 win over Burnley which edges them closer to their first Premier League title for 22 years.
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Air conditioning creates political divide in France — France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about air-conditioning as temperatures soar.
How a Small-Town Clerk’s Misdeeds Upturned the Murdaugh Verdict — Becky Hill, a court employee possibly trying to maximize sales of her book, pressured jurors to convict the South Carolina lawyer for the murders of his wife and son. Was she acting alone?
A Tiny E Reader — I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for me, is that not every book
How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea? — “I am an American, Chicago born,” begins Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first…
Alice in Wonderland is mostly math jokes — Storica — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, for twenty-six years. He wrote textbooks defending Euclid and treatises on symbolic logic. The children's book he is now famous for is, when you read it as a
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship — “Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
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Existentialist Embroidery — The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geome…
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American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
Airbus CEO Faury Says Supply Chain Is in a 'Much Better Place' — Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury comments on the planemaker's supply chain and orders during an interview with Bloomberg's Benedikt Kammel at the Berlin Aviation Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)
Lit Hub Daily: June 25, 2026 — Anthony Aycock looks back at Island Trees v. Pico, the first (and only) book ban case ever heard by the Supreme Court. | Lit Hub Politics TV writer and novelist Rasheed Newson talks to Spiro Skento…
Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story — I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy…
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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
Photos: Mexico City dazzles as 2026 World Cup kicks off in style — Fireworks and global stars light up Mexico City's kickoff of the 2026 World Cup at a revamped Azteca Stadium.
On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York — Scenario 1 I land in Jakarta just in time for Chinese New Year. I can smell the cigarette smoke and rain before the plane even touches the tarmac; my body retrieves memories faster than my mind can…
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution — As her world tilted and disappeared, the last buildings she would have seen were the church, the bakery, the artillery magazine, and a few houses along Rue St. Antoine. She would also have seen the…
Who Are You When You Lose Your Job? And Other Questions You Can Answer by Making Art — After I was laid off, I found myself haunted by the line “Had a dream I was Bartleby.” It had come to me very much like a dream, not thought so much as arrived. I wrote it down on the first pie
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …