What Anne of Green Gables Reveals About White Girlhood — “How dare you!” Anne Shirley seethes. Anne stands in her one-room country schoolhouse wearing a gingham dress. She grips in her girlish hands the pale wooden frame of her writing slate—or rather, w…
Best iRobot deal: Save $270 on iRobot Roomba 115X robot vacuum and mop — If you're a Prime member, now is your chance to grab this robot vacuum and mop for less than $200.
Surfed the same beach break for two years before realizing the best waves only work when the tide is falling and the wind hasn't switched yet. Now I'm there at 6am like a person with a real problem 🌊
Are library e-books really hurting book sales? — A study released at the top of this month found that e-lending at public libraries could be having a negative effect on the book market. In other words? Your Kindle has some explaining to do. Commi…
Lit Hub Weekly: August 17 – 21, 2026 — What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV Why the tragedy of Jason Arday reflects a rigged game for today’s Black scholars. | Lit Hu…
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live — The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria — I suppose you could call it running away, though my parents were aware and unconcerned — to go sit on the edge of the Black S…
How We Paint Dogs Says More About Us Than It Does Them — Dogs have long occupied a position at the boundary where the human animal meets the rest of creation. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin thought that the artists of Renaissance Venice—Titian, V…
Golfers eye 'unprecedented' Open conditions at Royal Birkdale — Golfers raved about the firm, fast conditions Tuesday at Royal Birkdale, two days before the start of the Open Championship.
Cannes Prize Winner ‘Ben’Imana’ Becomes First Best International Feature Oscar Submission for Rwanda — Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo’s Camera d'Or winner "Ben'Imana" makes history as the first Best International Feature submission from Rwanda.
Antiuniverses, Deepfakes, and Clone Children: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — September is my birthday month, so this latest crop of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative books feel especially like presents for me, but also for you! Fantasy heists, magical spy thrillers,…
Sonia Feldman Recommends Books About the Thrilling Dynamics of Girls’ Friendship — Internet rumor holds that manga artist Naoko Takeuchi created the beloved classic Sailor Moon about a group of girls she wished were her friends because she was lonely. Memes periodically circulate
The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness — On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA reported that computer modeling of data from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter …
The RodeCaster Video Series Now Does 4K Capture and Distribution — RodeCaster Video series devices get 4K.
This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys. — Have you ever wondered how long those nice people were actually stranded on the Orient Express? Or speculated about the carriage distance from London to Longbourn? Well, dear reader, have I got a t…
Mito y realidad de la bomba atómica alemana | Michael Stich | TEDxVillacarrillo — En un año marcado por la guerra en Irán y por los debates sobre el proyecto nuclear iraní, repasamos la historia de otro proyecto nuclear, el de Alemania durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El…
Introducing: The Daniel Roth Extra Plat Rose Gold With Gilt Dial — A true gilt dial for the brand's classically elegant two-hander creation.
Jeremiah Smith sets Ohio State career receiving yardage record — Ohio State star wide receiver Jeremiah Smith broke the Buckeyes' career receiving yardage record during Saturday's game against Kent State.
Vikings vs. Bears livestream: How to watch NFL for free — Don't miss the action from Week 2.
How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father — “It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself …
Spotlight l Marwan AL-Juraidy l TEDxSanaa l Heads and Tails 2021 | Marwan AL-Juraidy | TEDxSanaa — "Art for me is our way to change the stereotype about Yemen, not only that, but it is also a message. If we use it correctly, we can send very important, societal, and educational…
the library of congress catalogs what words were actually used in each year. watching 'google' jump from zero to omnipresent between 1998 and 2002 is something else
Rosalía Brings Lux To SNL, Appears In Sketch About Jelly Roll Playing Sphere — Last night (Oct. 10), Rosalía was the musical guest with Shane Gillis as host on SNL. It was nice to see the angelic pop star return; she last performed on the show in March 2022 and joined Bad…
How an Egyptian Prison Poem Came to Structure My Memoir — I wrote my memoir, Huna, in English, which is to say I wrote it inside a contradiction. Huna is a memoir of the Egyptian revolution, six years of political imprisonment in Egypt, and my US exile. I…
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go — “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, r…
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran — “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. …
Recommended Reading: ERG Media’s “Grand Seiko” Book Is How Modern Brand Books Should Be Done — With a beautiful and useful combination of artwork and scholarship, with thoughtful packaging from inside to out, it doesn't get much better than this.
Fall book clubs to join based on your personality type. — Contrary to popular belief, reading—our favorite thing in the world—needn’t be antisocial. Earlier this summer, The New York Times dubbed this the year of literary group travel. This fall, I&…
11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art — I’ve been on the hunt for books by women for as long as I can remember. My favorite stories are usually not romances, but stories of women trying to make sense of how they can be the main character…
GitHub - stoix-dev/sefaz-webservices-postman: Coleção Postman completa dos webservices da SEFAZ: NF-e, NFC-e, CT-e e MDF-e (SOAP 1.2, mTLS com e-CNPJ). Distribuição DFe testada em produção. — Coleção Postman completa dos webservices da SEFAZ: NF-e, NFC-e, CT-e e MDF-e (SOAP…
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool — Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons.
Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism, Tree by Tree — Nonfiction writer Robert Moor joins co-hosts Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about his new book, In Trees, and the power of “tree thinking,” a concept developed by the evolut…
this surfer tracked every wave he rode for a year and mapped where the best swells actually come from — the patterns are nothing like what you'd guess
Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness — In the spring of 1983, the poet Eileen Myles went for a walk with their friend Tom in Manhattan. There was perhaps nothing remarkable about this walk, only that the light “clustered around th…
This Week in Literary History: O. Henry is Released from Prison — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Famously, O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), author of “The Gift of the Magi,” and one of the most celebrat…
Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print — Can you trust AI to see what’s going on around you?
The Cypherpunk Library — A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
found a library book with someone's grocery list from 1987 still in it—milk, eggs, divorce lawyer. the divorce lawyer part is circled twice 😭📚
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our bevy of brilliant reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Kate Tuttle on John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy, Parul Sehgal on Rachel Cusk’s The Life of M, Laur…
Said “I’m Fine” Until I Wasn’t , Healing from Hidden Pain | Shikha Yadav | TEDxHauz Khas — Sometimes the strongest smile can hide the deepest pain. In this deeply personal talk, Shikha shares her experience of carrying grief, responsibilities, family expectations, and…
archive of every Supreme drop since 2002, organized by which ones actually held resale value vs which ones you bought hoping
“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better World — We can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement experi…
A literary map where every book is pinned to where its story actually takes place... and you can see how many novels are crammed into like three city blocks in Manhattan.
We Never Called It Frisco — They say we’re a town full of losers. They say we’re eccentric, eclectic—marginal. Maybe I’m exaggerating. But when somebody on the East Coast starts talking about a rivalry between New York and Sa…
Palestine weekly: Israeli politicians vie to look toughest before election — With Israelis voting on October 27, ministers are staging illegal settlement launches as campaign events.
the OED has a whole section for words that appear in exactly one book ever written. some of them are pretty good
“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt — On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, I walked down the fourth floor hallway on my way to class. Behind a thick column, lurking in the shadows, a ki…
The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life — What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable. William James knew this when he listed ineffability as the first of the four feature…
What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common? — Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city was quiet and my th…
S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ch…
On Ed Park’s Personal Days, one of the best comic novels of all time. — This is the first installment of an ongoing series recommending books from what I’ll call the Funny Novel Canon. Think of it as a working syllabus for literary humorists. If there’s a f…
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…
Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher — In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…
Health decisions are often risk vs. reward — but what if we don't have all the information? #TEDTalk — There's more health advice available than ever before — and no easy way to tell what’s worth your time. From biotech breakthroughs to smarter cancer screening, physician Dhruv…
FIFA President Infantino apologises to council but critics remain unhappy — FIFA council meeting lasts over three hours as President Gianni Infantino apologises to members, but critics want more.
Execution of US woman Christa Pike fails after botched lethal injection — The high-profile execution of murderer Christa Pike is in disarray after two lethal injections failed to kill her.
It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To) — For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novel—book cover designs. When the literary quarterly released its first volume in the spri…
Android’s physical navigation buttons are back on Googlebooks, but not the way you think — An oldie but a goodie — and kind of a necessity-die.
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty — “There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
Rescuers search for 12 missing after Nepal avalanche kills two — Rescue teams resume search for missing people after avalanche on Himlung Himal killed two people during severe weather.
How the Digital Attention Economy Has Taken Over Our Real-World Lives — When I visited the Louvre Museum in Paris, I was struck by how small the Mona Lisa looked in person—a common reaction—and by how most of the people in the room were not looking at the painting itse…