Experience: we found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son — I was rushing towards the turnstile when I noticed a bundle of clothes in a corner. I walked over, peeled back a dark sweatshirt, and saw him
All of a Sudden, the Glories of Cannes Are Upon Us — In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting — To be human is to go through multiple cycles of belief and cynicism throughout your lifetime. To quote the canonic meme guy sitting at a table, debate me. But I think that people my age have grown …
SpaceX shares slide as it joins the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 — Musk-led company joined the index on Tuesday, less than a month after its stock market debut on June 12.
NYT Connections hints and answers for July 13. Tips to solve 'Connections' #1128. — Everything you need to solve 'Connections' #1128.
What is the Future of Ethnic Studies? — When we come upon a fork in the road—two roads diverging in a yellow wood—it might be said that the decision of which way to go is a matter of impulse, rather than intention. At least, that is what…
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…
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead — It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to…
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…
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Ms. Boodle: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Advice on Writing to a Young Woman Aspiring to Be an Author — In late 1884, Adelaide Boodle — talented, timorous, still in her twenties — received news so thrilling she thought she was dreaming: Her favorite author…
Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels — People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu, for others the novel truly began when Cervan…
20 Ways of Surfacing from the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice to a 13-year-old Girl — Elizabeth Bishop’s memorial service opened with a reflection by her partner Alice — whose near-loss inspired one of the greatest…
Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2026 — Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Sofia Montrone on becoming reacquainted with her grandfather through fiction: “Before I was a …
USMNT player ratings: Pulisic & Co. struggle in World Cup exit — This USMNT was supposed to be special, but terrible performances throughout the U.S. roster led to a bitter World Cup exit in the round of 16.
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…
4 things we learned from the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix — Everything that happened this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps served as an encapsulation of the entire season.
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
The Power of a Thin Skin — “To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.”
this guy turned his marginalia from 20 years of reading into a searchable database, so you can see what random thoughts people scribbled in the margins of their favorite books 📚✨
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean - Longreads — Why it's important to cultivate resilience and curiosity as a writer.
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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
Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2026 — Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History It’s finally your chance to snag books by Slutty Cheff, Nicholas Boggs, Benedict Nguyen, and more in paperback. | L…
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein — Fanny has just told me that her most cherished lover, Lucia, told her a cat drowned yesterday in the Canal Saint-Martin. Apparently, it had one ear smaller than the other. She would get more inform…
How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback — Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks …
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. — The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means — “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
Brave New World: A Reading List About the Dark Future - Longreads — Five stories that make Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel feel like nonfiction.
Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes
Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World — The composer’s work, featured at a recent festival in Germany, includes a howling denunciation of war crimes against children.
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…
Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself — Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be glad. We rea…
Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps? — Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
Letters from Our Readers — Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about St. Paul, Becca Rothfeld’s review of Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” and Jennifer Wilson’s article about today’s rush for gold.
At the Crucible: Snooker’s World Series — “Contemporary snooker is defined by an ongoing anomaly: three men in their fifties still pummel younger players.”
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 Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
The Epic Disaster of Operation Epic Fury — Trump says that a deal to end the war with Iran is imminent. On key issues, it’s back to square one—or worse.
Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History — The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s Hi
The 13 Best Book Covers of May — Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month, despite the spring of it all, my favorite covers were strange and dark, their meanings obscure. Is it my mood, or the designersR…
US Strikes Iran in Escalation Over Stalled Peace Talks — The US military launched strikes against "multiple" targets in Iran for the second straight day after President Donald Trump accused the country of dragging out talks on an interim peace deal. Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar bre
Lit Hub Weekly: May 18 – 22, 2026 — “I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film Kath…
The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History — The first episode of the first season of the genre-redefining streaming series Chef’s Table on Netflix begins, as one might expect, in Italy. Massimo Bottura, the omnipresent, award-winning, and mu…
Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult — Other than the names. The names are difficult.
Beauty and grace: Spain prodigy Lamine Yamal’s game lives up to his name — One of the best players in the world, Spain's 19-year-old Lamine Yamal, is gearing up for his first World Cup final.
The Billionaires’ Vagina Club — With her motto, “Sexual health is health,” Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley.
Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother — “All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
Trump flouts political risk to host Netanyahu’s seventh White House visit — Oval Office meeting on Tuesday is first since US-Israel launched unpopular war with Iran.
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…
Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
Brady Corbet Looks Back on ‘Mysterious Skin,’ Which He Knew Was Destined to Be an ‘Important Movie’ — The actor-turned-filmmaker reflects on Gregg Araki's 2004 film, how it shaped his own directing, and what he makes of those Steven Spielberg theories.
María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile — The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities.
“Effaced…” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine — “Effaced…” by Jawdat Fakhreddine translated by Huda Fakhreddine Effaced, our villages, squares and skies. Nothing remains but smoke, and fires roaming freely. Houses, gardens, fields, all gone. The…
World champion Dubois splits with trainer McGuigan — British world champion Caroline Dubois has split with trainer Shane McGuigan and will be relocating to America.
Namwali Serpell and Cathy Park Hong on Toni Morrison’s Jazz — Every city has a pulse, a rhythm, a certain way it’s touched by light. Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell lands in sunny Oakland, California, where she reads Morrison’s…
Gold Is Rallying Again Thanks to Some Deep-Pocketed Buyers — ETFs are pouring money into bullion on the heels of central banks.
A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield — Oh, to live in a room filled with the objects described by Katherine Mansfield. To arrange her combs, playing cards, and enamel boxes, to try on “the most amusing orange coat with a procession of b…
“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.”
MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent — A terminal AI coding agent that formalizes math problems into Lean 4 theorems and proves them.