Macbeth and His Problems | Portico — If you’ve never seen a bad production of Macbeth, you’ve probably never seen a production of Macbeth. Famously cursed, the play has inspired perhaps the gravest superstition in the superstitious…
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
The Only Three Distinctions Between People — It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them…
Here’s the 2026 shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. — Today, the Caine Prize for African Writing, which awards £10,000 annually to the best short story by an African writer living on the continent or in the diaspora, has announced its 2026 shortlist. …
The Simpsons Switcheroo — At the beginning of a clip from this podcast episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they d
The Vanished Genius CTO: A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)｜占部雅一 masakazu urabe — Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few…
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain — “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our tasting menu of terrific reviews this week includes Brandon Taylor on Michael Cunningham’s Unsayable, Grace Byron on Missouri Williams’s The Vivisectors, Alex Shephard on Franklin Foer’s How So…
Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey — The first time I read the Odyssey, I was sixteen years old. The fantastical creatures, the alien cultures, and the wily hero’s desperate search for home were all thrilling to me. I felt an uncanny …
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 Poetry of Witness and Invention: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on Translating Antonella Anedda — “In my poetry,” she said, “there has always been an emphasis on concrete detail, put more simply, I think I fell in love with reality….When we are interested in the world, we become…
I don't enjoy the Internet any more — The pale is growing
Everything New in iOS 27.2 Beta 1 — Apple surprised us with the first beta of iOS 27.2 today instead of releasing an iOS 27.1 beta. Apple likely went straight to iOS 27.2 to keep iPhone Duo code under wraps for now, since we already know the iPhone Duo will ship with iOS 27.1…
Box Office: John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ from Magnolia Becomes IFC Center’s Second Biggest Debut — John Wilson's 'The History of Concrete' scored the second best debut in IFC Center's history with $90,000.
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering — “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”
See David Hockney’s odd and lovely illustrations for his favorite Brothers Grimm fairy tales. — The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness. He also, li
On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation — A decade and change ago, Paul Elie taught a class that I found formative. Its focus was first books, and he talked about each assignment in revelatory terms, prodding us graduate stu
GitHub - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills: Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video — Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video -…
“Enjambment,” by Megan Fernandes — “Oh, / thing, poor thing, little thing, thing thinging, thing is / a beautiful mess.”
Lit Hub Daily: September 25, 2026 — After 26 years, Cyberselfish, Paulina Borsook’s prophetic look at big tech, is more relevant than ever. | Lit Hub Technology “To win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain mov…
2026 Readers’ Choice Awards: The Top Hotels in Las Vegas — The top hotels in Las Vegas, as voted by our readers.
On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming — “Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A …
The Coast of Everything — “What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…
The Barman of the Ritz — Paris was occupied by German troops from June 14, 1940, to August 25, 1944: 1,533 nights. One thousand five hundred and thirty-three nights during which the Ritz was transformed from a luxury hotel…
Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim — If Americans think of the August 1, 1966, UT Austin shooting at all, they likely consider it dry, distant, and vaguely settled history that pales in the wake of recent atrocities. They may…
After Historic Intervention, 155 Emerges as Yen’s Next Big Test — Japan’s historic joint intervention with the US is shifting market focus to whether the yen can strengthen beyond 155 per dollar, a threshold strategists view as a key test for the rally’s staying power. 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…
Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth — The indie artist’s new album, “Lost Weekend,” is a document of both rupture and redemption.
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How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale — Barry Windsor-Smith was one of the most popular creators at Marvel Comics. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics did not look like or read like other comic books. It is important …
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World — We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for …
Ecuador intelligence chief and five Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash — Michele Sensi-Contugi, and his wife Stephany Hollihan among the seven people killed in the crash.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life. — At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets to ever publish. She wrote dozens of collections, and several highly quotable bangers that a rea…
Lit Hub Daily: September 8, 2026 — A new season means new books. Here are 35 titles you need to read this fall. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Emily Wilson talks to Leanne Ogasawara about “the high stakes and complexities of translat…
Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August — “You see, one can live without having survived,” writes Carolyn Forché. That sounds grim, and indeed it is, but it also points to one of the qualities that makes contemporary poetry so remark…
MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent — A terminal AI coding agent that formalizes math problems into Lean 4 theorems and proves them.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party, Ben Macintyre’s Redwood, Kate Atkinson’s Our Noble Selves, and Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism all feature among the best reviewed books of th…
Apple Explains What's Inside the iPhone Duo's Folding Screen — The iPhone Duo's inner display uses a complicated, multi-layer structure that Apple says will hold up to wear and tear. There are 10 ultrathin layers in total, including a nano-textured cover layer made from a…
US Inches Closer to Breaking Permit Logjam for Key Energy Projects — The Senate reached a bipartisan deal this week, but there’s no guarantee lawmakers will finish the job.
Who will be new Liverpool sporting director - and what issues do they face? — The possible candidates to succeed Richard Hughes - plus the numerous tasks facing Liverpool's next sporting director.
Where to Get Fire Outfits for Burning Man — Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered.
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…
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The myth of the petrodollar — America’s currency supremacy runs deeper than oil
Capturing a Literary Icon: Beowulf Sheehan on Photographing Cormac McCarthy — Tuesday, August 12. My photo assistant Chika and I arrive at the Santa Fe Institute, Cormac’s home away from home, and load equipment into the library. Cormac is early, chatting up the kitchen staf…
Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak - Longreads — "The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again."
Rams expect Puka Nacua, Alaric Jackson to play vs. 49ers — The Rams do not expect wide receiver Puka Nacua and left tackle Alaric Jackson to be suspended for the season opener against the 49ers despite ongoing legal situations, head coach Sean McVay said.
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How to Live a Miraculous Life — Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful i…
One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner — Forty years ago in October 1986 I attended my first Frankfurt Book Fair. On the first day of meetings my friend and colleague Gary Fisketjon and I were introduced to…
Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness — Bennie Bosley, the protagonist of my new queer YA holiday romance, Pining for You, is living for Christmas magic and Grand Gesture Romance the way Tiny Tim once did for that goose—and I love that f…
Ben Shelton's shot at history comes Sunday in the US Open final — Can Shelton become the first American man in 23 years to win a major? He'll carry the ultimate home-court pressure into his showdown with Zverev.
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor — At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a…
Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, Leila Slimani, and more: 23 new books out today! — More heavy-hitters descending on our bookstores this morning: Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto, and Leila Slimani’s I’ll Take the Fire are only to …
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Will the DOJ's investigation into a16z spook other VCs? | TechCrunch — On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats.
How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life — The first time I realized I was going to die I was cutting out an obituary for a project for my 6th grade class. I was working on the living room floor, as my father slouched nearby on the brown co…
UK military jamming other nation's satellites to defend itself, BBC told — The head of the RAF says the UK faces "unprecedented threats" from adversaries in space, as a new unit is created to defend Britain's satellites.
Beautiful Hand-Painted Globes — Bellerby & Co. Globemakers are one of the world’s last remaining makers of globes by hand. Their Instagram account is chock full of their handiwork. If I could