God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s — Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell are both historians and writers whose latest work focuses on the culture war of the 1980s and 1990s: Butler’s The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art and the Birth of Ameri…
Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK — Today in London a who’s who of the literary world will be observing what may be the inaugural memorial day for the late playwright Tom Stoppard. Celebrations center around the renaming of the Duke …
‘Shrinking’ Cinematographer John Brawley Explains How ‘Moving on’ Shaped the Look of Season 3 — John Brawley explains how 'Shrinking' used lighting, color, and camera work to reflect themes of grief, forgiveness, and growth. Craft Roundtables.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Mark Haber is Reading Now, and Next — Mark Haber’s Ada begins largely how it ends (no spoilers): Gerard Desacroux IV, the impish, recently-made-ruler of a small fiefdom in a region—Saxony or Bavaria, he doesn’t know—paces endlessly (“t…
Why Americans can’t seem to quit Little House on the Prairie. — This month, a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House on the Prairie arrives on Netflix. The reboot’s timing is auspicious. 2026 saw the apex of the tradwife dis…
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are — “My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this …
Paradise Pawn — When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me my own disposable camera with twenty four pictures on it. I used up two taking pictures out the window of the plane. I remember thinking…
The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye — “I was surrounded by phonies… They were coming in the goddam window.” * Seventy-five years ago today, The Catcher in the Rye first hit bookshelves across the US, and people still have some pretty s…
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Namwali Serpell and Saeed Jones on Toni Morrison, “Master of Shade” — In the words of drag performer Dorian Corey, shade requires you to “go to the fine point.” To throw shade—to insult your subject, either a text or a person, with maximum flare and make …
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
Common problems with Bluetooth speakers and how to fix them — Struggling with audio dropout or finnicky pairing? Ensure these common Bluetooth speaker problems aren't getting in the way of your auditory delights.
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
How Etel Adnan Shaped a Generation of Poets — At the 2026 Venice Biennale, artists and writers converged on Yto Barrada’s exhibition at the French Pavillion to pay tribute to Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. A stalwart polymath working acr…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t — At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia…
Lit Hub Weekly: June 8 – 12, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge is underway with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time! | Lit Hub Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wel…
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 …
Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — In just a few weeks, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year on June 21. To get you ready, here’s this month’s excellent SFF offerings. An actress joins a Time Travel Agency that’s al
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
Why Women Need Fairy Tales to Stay Rooted in Their Own Lives — In 1993, when I was thirty-two years old, I experienced something that resembled a breakdown. Burnout, we’d call it now, but the term wasn’t used so much back then. I was stuck in a corporate job I…
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Jack White Covers Free With The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson: Watch — Years ago, one of my editors made a point about Jack White that I’ve had in my head ever since: He’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at the same time. Within the White Stripes, White was more or less forced to…
tvOS 27 Drops Support for Two Apple TV Models — The upcoming tvOS 27 update that was previewed today drops support for two Apple TV models. The two Apple TV models that are compatible with tvOS 26 but not tvOS 27 are the Apple TV HD from 2015 and the Apple TV 4K (1st generation)
ECB Says Extent of Inflation Shock 'Remains to Be Seen' — European Central Bank Governing Council member Olaf Sleijpen says the full extent of the inflation shock from the Iran war isn’t yet clear and that policymakers will act accordingly as data arrive. He made the comments…
Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners) — Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came upon this wisdom, I was on the seventh draft of my debut n…
When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer — For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some vision. I read more slowly, so every word had to be …
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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond — Last week, on May 29, New York City Mayor Mamdani fired New York Sheriff Anthony Miranda and appointed Edwin Raymond as his replacement. This caught my eye for a few reasons, the first being
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Valve's Steam Machine is as fast as a Ryzen 7000 CPU in leaked benchmarks — Real-world performance for Valve's living room PC might vary.
Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today! — It was an undeniably awesome weekend. Speaking from a New York angle, it simply couldn’t get better: warm evenings, Pride events galore, and last but not least, the Knicks won. We keep up the…
Out From the Shadows: On Rediscovering Mary Shelley’s Half-Sister, Fanny Imlay — It is an interesting challenge to write about someone who has been overlooked, who is overshadowed by more vibrant characters. If they are at first glance unexceptional, is that to say dull or unin…
Texas governor pumps brakes on data centers — Data centers must earn their place on the grid, Gov. Greg Abbott declares.
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This Letter Penned on the ‘Titanic’ Days Before It Sank Shares the Perspective of the Ship's Second-Class Passengers — The letter, now up for auction, describes good weather and bustling activity as the "Titanic" prepared to set off across the Atlantic Ocean
Here are the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. — The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. Named in honor of Bram Stoker (Dracula) and awarded annually since 1988, t…
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…
Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2026 — Zach St. George explores the wild scams of Australia’s snake venom con men. | Lit Hub History How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob Ferguson brought environmental liberation of the fae variety …
The Reluctant Researcher: How I Ended Up Writing a Historical Novel — Early on as a writer, I must have internalized the phrase “write what you know” and not looked back. My characters always seem to end up as extensions of me, living in small towns like the one I gr…
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It) — The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom. A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and standing upright. It prefers testimony to atmosphere, co…
Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing — “Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are]…
On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back — In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with somethi…
Colson Whitehead, Michael Cunningham, Claire Vaye Watkins, and more: 20 new books out today! — Three splashy titles start us off this week: the long-awaited final book in Colson Whitehead’s trilogy, a memoir on craft by Michael Cunningham, and a new release by Claire Vaye…
“The Persian *Mâr-Nâmeh* or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) — A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings? — The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) is suspended in the air above the traffic and the trees of the Avenida Paulista. By some architectural wizardry of concrete and glass the p…
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copped a deadstock 90s champion windbreaker at a flea market for eight bucks... the tag says it cost $34 new. somehow that made me sadder than paying full price would have
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
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A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction — As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a car, roll the wind…
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 …
Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh — Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, finds the humor in difficult times.
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…
How to Date a Fanatic — Before the first Molotov cocktail reached us, before the crowd with knives and machetes and wooden clubs arrived, it was a large rock that invaded our lunch table. It went past my left ear and boun…