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An Angel Watching Over Me: On Exile, Estrangement and Placelessness in Paris — 1. The International Refugee Organization (IRO) put the three women up in Paris. My eighteen-year-old mother, Ursula; her sister, Traute; and my grandmother, Gertrud. It was supposed to be a one-ni…
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
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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…
“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos — Today, we’ll wake again and drink pineapple juice spiked with Bacardi, then curl up in a hammock. We’ll do another line, then you’ll play me more Bruce, then we’ll cash another unemployment check. …
Rees-Zammit reverts to Wales wing for Fiji Test — Wales head coach Steve Tandy has made six changes for the Nations Championship opener from the side that defeated Barbarians.
Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level? — The following is from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. _______________________________ Excerpted from Poking the Squid: What We Can Lea…
Identity Through Struggle | Karim Deif | TEDxMASE Youth — Kaim walks us through his journey of self discovery shaped by all the struggles he faced which determined who he is now and helped him figure out his targets in life. An Engineering Manager with experience across…
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Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base — Branches received exceptions to Hegseth's policy that made the shot optional.
This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 15, 1300, the poet Dante Alighieri was named one of the six priors that formed the Signoria of Florence, the city’…
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain — “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
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Hiked the same trail every weekend for three years before noticing the creek fork splits into two completely different ecosystems — moss side vs. dry rocks. Now I can't unsee it.
P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism — I was introduced to the term “Afro-Surrealism” through an interview in which Phillip B. Williams called it his preferred way to describe his novel Ours. The phrase was coined by Amiri Baraka in 197…
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Israel Weighs US IPO for Multi-Billion-Dollar Defense Companies — Israel is considering listing state-owned defense giants Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. in the US to potentially avoid stricter disclosure obligations in the local market.
Body Shaming | Mae Clark | TEDxRoyal Tunbridge Wells Youth — In May 2026, after months of preparation, students from across Tunbridge Wells delivered their very own TEDx talk. With support from teachers, each student researched, scripted, rehearsed and presented a short talk on…
A content creator tried to trademark “Hot Girls Read.” BookTok clapped back. — In a bit of unhinged book news, an influencer has come under fire this week after attempting to trademark the slogan “Hot Girls Read.” Allie Mitrovich, the content creator behind Allie …
Lit Hub Daily: June 9, 2026 — How remaining unmarried allowed Muriel Spark’s “intellectual monster” to run free. | Lit Hub Biography Dave Eggers talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing a novel that understands visual artists (as…
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Watch: BBC reports from the site as investigators give update — A train driver dies and 100 people are injured in the crash on Friday.
Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer. — Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up y…
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All — If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding…
Grooming gang leader released from prison — Shabir Ahmed, known as 'Daddy' by his victims, was jailed for a total of 22 years in August 2012.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
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…
When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes — You’d be hard put to call it a feminist image exactly. In this illustration for a gossip column printed sometime in 1831-2, the writer George Sand is on the protective, even chivalrous arm of a man…
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026 — In the world of children’s literature, there’s been some recent debate about whether children’s books are mostly any good. This, dear reader, is a question that I feel particularly qualified to ans…
went hiking alone for the first time and realized i'd been waiting for permission from someone who wasn't even coming 🥾 the trail felt different after that
Seven modern novels that would make excellent musicals. — Okay, hear me out. Some of us in lit-world also celebrated the Tonys this weekend, where Ragtime took the statue for Best Revival. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s epic novel, Ragtime joins a lon…
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.”
Israel-Lebanon deal ties ceasefire to Hezbollah disarmament: Will it work? — Hezbollah chief calls the deal 'null and void', raising questions if the latest agreement can lead to peace in Lebanon.
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Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby — Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell travels to Philadelphia to talk with writer Angela Flournoy about a scene from Tar Baby. Speaking at the Free Library, they trace the novel’…
someone catalogued every book mentioned in other books.. you can follow the chain and see what authors were actually reading when they wrote
Monkees' Micky Dolenz Covers Paul Westerberg Deep Cut — You might know Micky Dolenz as the sole surviving member of the Monkees, the ultra-popular psychedelic pop act that was assembled to star in a ’60s sitcom. The Monkees’ entire run was fascinating — the most monoculture…
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Found a used copy of a book where someone had written corrections in the margins — in different handwriting — arguing with the original annotator across 200 pages. It's like watching two people's conversation unfold.
Mehdi Hasan: Disrupting democracy’s decline — With democracy on the decline in both the UK and US, Mehdi Hasan makes the case for independent journalism.
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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…
How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape — Over the past 150 years, honey bees have become the cornerstone of US agriculture. Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from…
Sort Your Life Out: The four most common cluttering mistakes and how to fix them — Tidying expert Dilly Carter shares her best tips on organising your kitchen, lounge and clothes.
How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family — “You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
Namwali Serpell and Hanif Abdurraqib on Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon — For the launch of Ohio’s year-long, state-wide celebration of Toni Morrison, Namwali Serpell flies to Columbus to talk with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib. With the help of the audience, they r…
Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…
every hiking influencer acts like a 2000ft elevation gain is summiting everest!! watched someone claim a nature trail was 'life-changing' when it was literally a paved loop 😭