On Redeeming Freud — The inspiration to write a novel or story usually comes to me as a vague inkling that some image, situation, or statement (often a paradox) might open a doorway to a world rich in emotional and phi…
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 …
This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-year-old Carson McCulle
Am I the Asshole For Being Jealous of My Friend’s Literary Success? — Well, howdy! Fancy meeting you here! Welcome back to another installment of God’s favorite mistake, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s an advice column that’s also got a terrifically high ABV. I’m you…
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare — 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 ta…
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…
Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today! — At last: the new Téa Obreht novel is upon us! It comes to us in a day filled with other bounties: Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and Chang-Rae Lee are just a few of the other lauded names whoR…
The Au Pair — The next morning, Steven suffered through his undergrad fiction workshop with a hangover; three drinks had, sometime in the last few years, become a daylong punishment. The projection screen, synce…
Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet — When she was growing up, Mia Monroe remembers, monarch butterflies were a natural part of the rhythm of life. This was in the 1960s, and Mia and her family lived in San Carlos, California, at that …
Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts — The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the…
Interactive map of every famous surf break in the world with actual footage of what the wave looks like on different swell days. You can see exactly why people drove across continents for a few seconds of the right tide.
Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2026 — S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space…
Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58. — Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58. A leader in both France and Iran, Satrapi lived and wrote at a cul…
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…
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Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases — Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release
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…
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship — “The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible.”
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music — “Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife — Like the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, European contact with the Americas was a single, ecologically random, earth-shattering event that completely reshaped land and sea. Disease and…
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…
Lit Hub Daily: July 27, 2026 — D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelman discuss the literary word’s unacknowledged class system. | Lit Hub In Conversation On that time Johnny Cash almost started a riot…
Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem — For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using…
Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley…) — The train pulled into Nice at 11:20pm. It was December 31st, 2021, and after I had found my small pension-hotel to drop off my bag, I went out into the streets. There was a flurry of excitemen
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature — Once upon a Y2K, technology still felt like it could fulfill some human need: our drive for connection, perhaps, or just external recognition of our internal monologue. In the early aughts,…
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country — In one of my earliest memories, I’m shrinking. I’m in the back seat of my parents’ car, face pressed against the window, straining to see the peaks of the mountains outside. The road we’re driving …
Found a vintage Carhartt jacket at a swap meet with the original price tag still on: $28. Someone paid full retail and never wore it. The seams are perfect.
Ranking the top contenders at the 2026 US Open — From the favorites to the underdogs, who can win the US Open? Bill Connelly breaks it down.
Unprecedented Times — Listen: I am not ungrateful. I have always known I am the luckiest girl on earth. I was born in America, for starters, in the belly of the empire instead of its jaws—and I was even born at all. Rig…
Saturday's gossip: Liverpool enquire about Real Madrid's Endrick — Liverpool make Endrick enquiry, Chelsea brace for a Nicolas Jackson offer and Arsenal make request to Victor Osimhen, plus more.
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6 last-minute Apple event rumors: iPhone Duo, price hikes — We're so, so close.
The Sound of Your Voice - Longreads — "The fact that I had song ideas, let alone a place where I was saving them, was significant. It had been 15 years since I’d last released an album."
A special message for TED fans from Sal Khan #TEDTalks — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
NextEra, Dominion Offer Virginia Aid to Smooth $67 Billion Deal — NextEra Energy Inc. and Dominion Energy Inc. have unveiled a package of benefits aimed at customers in Virginia, as the companies pursue regulatory approval for their proposed $67 billion mega-merger.
I Want You to Be Happy — He had promised himself he wouldn’t talk about it and now here he was, talking about it. Not just talking about it, but shouting specific details directly in her ear. Certain things, obviously, he …
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…
Pompey boss apologises to Cardiff players over fan incident — Portsmouth head coach John Mousinho apologises to Cardiff City players after an incident involving home fans at Fratton Park during their Championship match.
A founder documented what actually happens in the first 90 days after launch... no polishing, just the daily log. Quiet and honest.
Google won't be forced to sell its ad exchange following antitrust ruling — A judge previously determined that Google illegally monopolized a pair of ad tech markets.
Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics — For novelist Cris Judar, language and bodies are charged with conventions and social norms, and as such, language and bodies contain within them the potential for social upheaval and change. They a…
London amateur goalkeeper could be next in line for Ugandan throne — A goalkeeper from an amateur team in South East London could become king of a Ugandan region after the death of his cousin.
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…
Becerra, running for governor of California, faces a health insurance problem — The nation's uninsured rate hit a historical low when Xavier Becerra was health secretary. Now he wants to be California's next governor as Trump's actions have driven people off health insurance.
Morocco’s ruling allies turn on each other before election campaign begins — Political tensions rise as Moroccans prepare for the polls, with the official campaign start still days away.
Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2026 — How environmentalism shows up in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism “The vast majority of contemporary literature is not in fact published but submitted.” On publish…
Ferrari's controversial first EV sells for record $40 million at auction — <p>The first production model of the electric Ferrari designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson has sold for $40 million – a record price for a new vehicle at auction. The carmaker's polarising first…
Watch: Emotional moment as Alan Carr honoured at National Television Awards — The comedian received the Special Recognition prize at Tuesday night's awards.
Google rolls out Motion Assist bubbles to Pixel, Samsung — After announcing earlier this month, Google has rolled out Motion Assist to Pixel and Samsung phones running Android 17.
After 900 years, the Bayeux Tapestry returns to England and goes on display in London — The nearly 230-foot long Bayeux Tapestry is back in England for the first time in 900 years. It depicts the 1066 Battle of Hastings, a turning point in English history that ended Anglo-Saxon…
August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Claire Stapleton’s Don’t Be Evil, Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, and Dave Ziren’s The People’s Historian all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the m…
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…
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.
the brushwork on vintage nike boxes in the 90s was genuinely craft... stumbled into a archive that catalogs every colorway and the actual design notes behind them 🎨
Agnes Callard on Socrates’ Turf — Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
Went to a vintage store looking for one specific 90s jacket. Left with four things I didn't know I needed and a receipt that makes no sense.
Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires — Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man— “Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can; I intend to let him bite me, all the risk I will endure, Just to prove the sterling…
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 😭📚
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September — 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…