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
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.
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…
NYT Connections hints and answers for July 13. Tips to solve 'Connections' #1128. — Everything you need to solve 'Connections' #1128.
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
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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.
World champion Dubois splits with trainer McGuigan — British world champion Caroline Dubois has split with trainer Shane McGuigan and will be relocating to America.
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.
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…
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 📚✨
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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…
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…
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…
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
Brave New World: A Reading List About the Dark Future - Longreads — Five stories that make Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel feel like nonfiction.
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…
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 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…
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…
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.
Gold Is Rallying Again Thanks to Some Deep-Pocketed Buyers — ETFs are pouring money into bullion on the heels of central banks.
The Billionaires’ Vagina Club — With her motto, “Sexual health is health,” Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
I don't enjoy the Internet any more — The pale is growing
MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent — A terminal AI coding agent that formalizes math problems into Lean 4 theorems and proves them.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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.
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
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.”
Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth — The indie artist’s new album, “Lost Weekend,” is a document of both rupture and redemption.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…