One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet — On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back of an eastbound Willys Jeep station wagon. The…
What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture — Each day, my dog, Helgi, and I walked about eight miles. We started on Wymore Street, in the heart of Elliott, my neighborhood, and strode past the baseball field with its weird sign, past the city…
From Marquis de Sade to Grand Theft Auto, a Brief History of Depravity — The prisoner’s hand ached. He sat hunched over his desk in a cold tower of the Bastille jail in Paris, writing in tiny letters on a very long roll of paper—nearly 40 feet in total, made from smalle…
Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships — Jennette McCurdy has spent the past few years telling the world her story. The actress became a household name as the comedic sidekick of iCarly, a Nickelodeon sitcom. She was fifteen when the firs…
Found a trail marker so old the paint had negative space where the wood was rotting through it. Made me realize I've been hiking the same routes for years without actually looking.
“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping — There is already a Black feminist tradition of using the arts as historical preservation. A dynamic sampling of contemporary literature and art created by Black women considers the forms of
Apple is reportedly expanding Apple Wallet IDs to four more states — North Carolina's DMV has confirmed plans for a mobile ID program that'll eventually support Apple Wallet.
American Food Safety Is In Its Flop Era — Plus the snack hyperacceleration, our golden age of pickles, and more.
Travel Archives — Outside's travel experts cover the best destinations in the world—and the greatest adventures waiting in your backyard.
Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness” — “Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026 — How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticis…
US threatens ‘indefinite’ blockade against Iran: How long can it last? — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims US Navy can sustain blockade despite reports of poor conditions.
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
Football gossip: Kroupi, Wilson, Ederson, Tonali, Reijnders, Hall, Delap — Chelsea join Arsenal in the race for Eli Junior Kroupi, Fulham and Everton eye Harry Wilson, Manchester United want Sandro Tonali and Ederson, plus more.
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life — “It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning — “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person……
Engadget review recap: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Dell XPS 13 and more — A roundup of recent reviews from Engadget.
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…
The Papers: 'The Sun, the Moon' and 'The greatest show on Earth' — The once in a generation solar eclipse across the UK and Europe dominates Thursday's front pages.
Got lost on a trail I've hiked twelve times, turned around and somehow ended up at the exact same trailhead from a completely different direction 🥾 still don't understand the geometry of it
Yes Bank Hikes FX Deposit Rates to Attract Non-Resident Inflows — Yes Bank Ltd. has raised interest rates on foreign currency non-resident deposits by as much as 335 basis points, becoming one of the first Indian lenders to offer the program aimed at attracting capital flows and
Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other — “Because there is so little opportunity for intimacy in daily life, and because some forms of intimacy (especially if intense) are…
The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile — On a crisp March day in 2013, the beginning of the antipodal fall, Sofía Brito walked through a wrought iron fence, up a short flight of stairs, and between the slender salmon columns leading into t…
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life — We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…
Vessel hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says — British maritime agency says the incident caused one casualty and damaged the vessel's engine room.
Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal? — On Monday, Hinge—yes, that Hinge—released a free audiobook comprised of five original short stories inspired by the dating sagas of real Hinge couples. The five pieces were written and narrated by …
On Good Fat, Bad Fat, and the Problems With BMI — Today, the terms “obese” and “overweight” have precise medical definitions based on how much someone weighs relative to their height, but this is a modern formulation. Until recently, people knew t…
The ten sickest burns in Emily Wilson’s Odyssey review, ranked. — Emily Wilson, the classicist behind the buzziest Odyssey translation of my generation, has finally weighed in on the film adaptation of her favorite poem. And so dark was the shade that Wilson̵…
“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley — I first started reading Grace Paley in the weeks after my second novel was published, as I sought refuge from refreshing Goodreads, from waiting for the Booker Prize Committee to phone. Reading the…
The Rumpus is back! — Last year, publishing power couple Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman acquired beloved online lit mag The Rumpus. Today, the new leaders celebrated the launch of their rebranded site with new essays, fi…
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Kapp stars as the Spirit win by 32 runs against Phoenix — Marizanne Kapp starred with the bat as London Spirit beat Birmingham Phoenix at Lord's.
Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of America’s Great Outdoors — If someone asked you to name the world’s most common plotline you’d probably come up with something like this: a hero heeds a call to adventure—maybe to slay a dragon or protect their homeland—then…
this guy wrote a whole book about why we're all terrible at reading books & honestly?? the self-roast hit different 💀📚
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past — A recent essay in The New Republic asks why historians have become such visible public voices during the Trump era. Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson,…
Neuma: Build Your Personal AI by Talking to It — A hands-on course. Build a personal AI system with briefings, memory, coaching, and tasks, no programming required.
this library cataloged every book ever mentioned in a book & now you can fall down the rabbit hole of what characters were actually reading 📚✨
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]…
Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Switch Writers’ Groups? — Hello everyone! Welcome back to Am I the Literary Asshole?, an advice column that wants to be more than friends. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m currently trying to figure out how to talk my…
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World — The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — al
Sheila Heti on Talking to Everyone at Once — 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…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Paul Yoon’s Etna, Dave Zirin’s The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, and Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur all feature among the best reviewed books of the w…
Lenné-Dreieck in Berlin, Germany — <p><img alt="Lenné-Dreieck as it appears today" data-width="2048" data-height="1536" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/AViFbgkeb9WSUCxM2BZjN1iBPCreW6GBulG4P2qfyyA/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9h…
JPMorgan Sees Treasury Avoiding Bond Sales Tweak Due to Midterms — The US Treasury will avoid rattling bond markets ahead of crucial midterm elections, holding off on changes that would introduce the possibility of bigger bond sales in its quarterly refunding statement next…
Lit Hub Daily: July 23, 2026 — Kōhei Saitō examines why solutions rooted in capitalism will never stop climate change: “The metabolic relationship between humans and nature was once a cycle—a process that could be represen…
As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are Stepping In — From my desk at the bookstore where I work, I can see most of fiction and all of our new releases, the poetry section by the front door, the edge of world history. I watch people bend down to exami…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Isabel Waidner’s As If, Danielle Allen’s Radical Duke, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s …
There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel — A little over a week ago, Brad Lander—fresh off his recent ousting of incumbent Dan Goldman as the Democratic Party candidate for New York’s 10th congressional district—endorsed…
This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark' — For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s animals in a series of striking images that make even the tiniest creatures…
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 …
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
Boeing is selling its air taxi startups to Archer Aviation — Archer is making big moves.
The Children of Blood and Bone trailer is here. (But you might want to buy the book instead.) — This morning, Paramount released the first trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, their buzzy adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack…
Wordle today: The answer and hints for August 12, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1880.
X retires revenue sharing for new 'Original Content Rewards' program — The platform will stop paying users based on ad revenue splits and instead reward posts based on qualified impressions from Premium subscribers
Biggest 2D Map of the Universe Took 13 Years and 263,407 Photos to Make — 263,407 telescope photos and nearly four billion celestial objects.
TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office | TechCrunch — The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content moderation team.
The Powerful Freedom of BDSM — The specific terminology varies across the world, but generally, BDSM is an umbrella term that reflects a wide range of erotic desires, behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities related…
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Rockets crush Sunrisers for first women's Hundred title — Trent Rockets win their first women's Hundred title with an eight-wicket win at Lord's after bowling Sunrisers Leeds out for just 91.