Jeffrey Epstein Dons Meta AI Glasses in Damning Guerrilla Ad — The notorious glasses are for “people who don’t do consent,” reads a mock ad mounted outside the Ray-Ban store by the activist group Everyone Hates Elon.
Honeytrap thieves jailed for killing men they had drugged — Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru gave their victims the drug GBL to render them unconscious.
How We All Become Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map — As Taiwanese manufacturers rushed to fabricate GPS chips in the early and mid-2000s and sat-nav companies rushed to install them in their receivers, Frank van Diggelen and his colleagues at Global …
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…
Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026 — How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticis…
The secret economics inside the new Planet Money board game — From Nobel Prize-winning research to the Laffer Curve, Scabby the Rat, Veblen's peacock, and more — the economic ideas and inside jokes hiding throughout Planet Money's new board game.
Villa Coco — Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty. I took the Baronessa’s comment to mean I was to wear my best clothes; of course I had packed only one jacket and tie, and that only because I…
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…
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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…
Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…
Afghanistan comfortably claim series over Ireland — Afghanistan seal series victory over Ireland with a game to spare at Stormont thanks to their record tally in the one-day format.
Apple’s 20th-anniversary iPhone redesign reportedly remains on track - 9to5Mac — Following reports that Apple had scrapped the 20th anniversary iPhone, Bloomberg says the redesign remains on track for next year's Pro models.
Life and Death in the American Suburbs — Kid life is fast. More is happening than the mind can hold. You are sitting in a daydream in a chair while outside the window a bird is whistling a tune you never hear. You get lost in your own tho…
“Go Get ’Em” — Illustrated by Yana Mihaylova My boyfriend’s family is supposed to visit and we have to prepare and try to match their lavish dinners and four-course crystal-and-china extravaganzas. They are going…
DONKEY.BAS — IBM PC (1981) — Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC.
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors — “Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, whi
Somali army clashes with rebel forces for control of key city Baidoa — Somali forces repel rebel fighters in Baidoa after intense fighting involving explosives and dozens of casualties.
FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows — Drone maker DJI says the “military-grade” label is a category error,
Lit Hub Daily: August 12, 2026 — When a wealthy university donor can silence one of the world’s leading genocide scholars, it exposes the problem with for-profit higher education. | Lit Hub Politics The best way to get peopl…
One of the Most Important Cookbooks of the 20th Century Is Celebrating 50 Years. What Made Its French Author So Special in American Kitchens? — With instructions and images explaining how to carve vegetables and deconstruct a lamb, "La Technique" by Jacques Pépin became a…
An English professor in Florida was just fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story. — Vinita Prabhakar, an instructor at South Florida State College, was suspended from her post when admin got wind she was teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh short story in her intro to fiction…
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Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026 — Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Blac…
One of My Poems is Literally Going to the Moon — In some sense, I’ve been going to the Moon most of my life. As a child of the space age whose father worked in the space industry, I’ve tracked sometimes closely, sometimes less so with activities …
Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 11, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1787.
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary — Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…
10 negocios fallidos antes de los 18 | Erick Meléndez | TEDxUPMP — Erick Meléndez expone los retos para generar un emprendimiento que verdaderamente genere ganancias. Erick Meléndez es fundador de Aflorear, una empresa líder en su sector en Puebla, con más de 35 colaboradores y p
Writing Underwater: What Diving Taught Me About Trauma and Creativity — Waking up to a home invasion has to be one of the scariest things—opening your eyes, and there’s someone there. A stranger in the doorway. A long-haired man in a backpack, standing over your bed wi…
Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2026 — Henry Power tackles an age old question: How many Homers were there, actually? | Lit Hub History “The Odyssey is as relevant as ever it was. And I, for one, cannot wait for the next rendition…
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Where to buy Pokémon cards in 2026: Best retailers, prices, and upcoming releases — Everything you need to know to beat the scalpers.
A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
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I Get Eaten Alive by Mosquitoes. This Tiny Heat Device Burns My Skin but Stops the Itch. — The Beurer BR60 is a remote-like device that zaps heat onto the skin surrounding a bug bite. It feels a little bit like torture—but a good kind of torture that keeps me from scratching…
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today! — Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee…
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World — The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — al
Art as a Language of Connection | Qusai Mlhem | TEDxAmman Arab University — An inspiring live musical performance by Jordanian artist Qusai Mlhem and his band at TEDxAmmanArabUniversity. The performance highlights the power of independent music in expressing human emotions and…
Is Colombia heading for its most polarised election yet? | The Economist — Who could become Colombia’s next president? The Economist’s Latin America correspondent Kinley Salmon and Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, discuss Colombia’s deeply polarised election and
“We Live Inside the Sun.” Who Studies the Universe Changes How We See the Universe — On Wednesday, the small slice of humanity which is scattered across rural Russia, northern Spain, eastern Portugal, Iceland and Greenland will experience (and, if we’re lucky, actually see) a…
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.”
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Lit Hub Weekly: June 1 – 5, 2026 — Sharon Blackie explores the grounding power of fairy tales. | Lit Hub Criticism What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics…
Discord's Nitro subscription now includes a slightly nerfed Xbox Game Pass - Engadget — The Nitro Rewards program also includes discounts on Logitech G and SteelSeries gear.
P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism — I was introduced to the term “Afro-Surrealism” through an interview in which Phillip B. Williams called it his preferred way to describe his novel Ours. The phrase was coined by Amiri Baraka in 197…
Sly Flourish: Run great tabletop roleplaying games. — Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for game masters written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition | TechCrunch — AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
Everyone is designing with AI, not for it — We focus on how people are designing and building with AI. I rarely read about how AI is changing “what” people are designing and building.
VAR, timewasting and subs - new rules for the new season — The 2026-27 season will feature an unprecedented number of new laws, mostly designed to tackle tempo disruption and make the game quicker.
Korean and French Culture Are Set to Rendezvous at a New Museum in Seoul for Modern and Contemporary Art — The Centre Pompidou Hanwha, the newest member of a growing global network of art museums, will debut with an exhibition on European cubism and Korean art
Westpac Profit Edges Up as CEO Flags Moderating Housing Market — Westpac Banking Corp.’s profit expanded slightly as deposit and loan growth offset caution on the housing market from the lender’s chief executive.
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…
India’s July Trade Gap Widens as Imports Rise on Robust Demand — India’s trade deficit widened more than expected in July as imports rose amid resilient domestic demand.
The Unexpected Joys of a Geriatric Debut — If I were 26 years old, full of piss and vinegar and had a debut poetry collection, I’d fancy myself a modern-day troubadour. I’d live out of my car, which would likely be a beat-up Volvo station w…
Patients treated in tents after earthquake damages Indonesia hospital — Patients treated in tents after earthquake damages Indonesia hospital
Morocco boosts Ceuta security amid calls for mass migrant crossing — Morocco has added barbed wire and more police near Spain’s Ceuta enclave after online calls for another mass crossing.