A bookbinder started lettering spines backwards so they'd read correctly when the book was shelved. Now she can't stop seeing every other designer's choice as a silent scream.
An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise — Tim Curry, who died this week at 80, will probably always be best known for his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not unreasonably. With his snug corset and un…
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. …
An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story — People can be surprised when they hear that I wrote a novel that centers professional wrestling. Someone like me–a Brown person raised in Bangladesh in their early 30s–isn’t what one thinks of when…
The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic — The walls of America have been lined with portraits of white men in black suits since the walls themselves were erected. Recently, as Americans have tried to balance this lopsided reflection of his…
Four Reasons You Should Know More About Gordon S. Wood, the Scholar of the American Revolution Who Died This Week at Age 92 — The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who wrote of the "radicalism" of the country’s founding, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in a parking lot
Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting — To be human is to go through multiple cycles of belief and cynicism throughout your lifetime. To quote the canonic meme guy sitting at a table, debate me. But I think that people my age have grown …
On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution — As her world tilted and disappeared, the last buildings she would have seen were the church, the bakery, the artillery magazine, and a few houses along Rue St. Antoine. She would also have seen the…
Got lost on a trail I've hiked a hundred times because I was looking at my phone, ended up finding a waterfall that apparently everyone else missed too 🤔💧
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. …
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our mixum gatherum of marvelous reviews this week includes Rachel Vorona Cote on Paul Yoon’s Etna, Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham’s Killing Spree, Daniel Felsenthal on Molly Crabapple’s Here Whe…
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…
“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness — “Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mom said, with a big silly grin. After only three months, my father was back in my life. And it was all because of the n-word.…
Sweden school attack victim was 17-year-old girl; attacker also a student — Brinell School's principal says 18-year-old suspected of carrying out Friday's deadly sword attack was a student there.
How to Write a Novel in 33 Days — There’s a popular idea, fueled by countless Hollywood movies, of how writing a novel works. It goes something like this. Author is struck by inspiration. Author sits down and types in a frenzied mo…
Home — Since 1970, Climbing Magazine has been the voice of the climbing world, publishing climbing news, interviews, features, opinions, and advice.
Gaining Ground — The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home. I do not mean I knew it in a peaceful, comforting sort of way, the way one recognizes an old friend; that first time it was like an electric…
hiked 8 miles to a waterfall and found a entire family of deer just... chillin in the mist like they were posing for a photoshoot — my brother in christ i didn't even bring my good camera 📸😭
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two — The year is half over, if you can believe it. Time marches ever forward, into the abyss. Books, though, can smooth the passage. If you choose wisely, that is. To that end, here are the novels, coll…
Volunteers to honor late Dolly Parton with helmet decal — Tennessee will honor the late Dolly Parton with a helmet sticker this season. The 80-year-old country singer and philanthropist was a native of Tennessee and had ties to the university.
The Odysseys, ranked. — It’s a story we just can’t seem to quit. From antiquity to outer space, literature and film are filled with scrappy adventurers struggling to get home. This week, Christopher Nolan cash…
Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you — Dyson’s first electric toothbrush has a camera, Wi-Fi, and a mouthwash sprayer.
Lit Hub Daily: August 4, 2026 — Why mothers with babies are the ultimate flâneurs, even if “there aren’t a lot of mother-flâneurs in literature.” | Lit Hub Craft Tracy Borman recommends books by C.J. Sansom, Hilary Ma…
Everything But the Burden: Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity — Praise be to Akhenaten, to Cleopatra, to Ra, Sun Ra, Iris, Osiris and all the ancestors and ancestresses: Flyboy in the Buttermilk, by the late, great Greg Tate—that posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winni…
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…
The Cypherpunk Library — A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 22 – 26, 2026 — Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | Lit Hub Criticism “I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I…
Habits of the Sea — 1952 Clay Lockhart’s cries echoed for half a mile up the rain-drowned coastline, carried on the late January storm that tore across the Outer Hebrides—an isolated, windswept stretch of archipelagos…
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund — Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose ar…
Seahawks' Bud Clark, Mason Richman out long term with injuries — Seahawks rookie safety Bud Clark broke his right ankle in Sunday night's 19-16 preseason loss to the Titans. OL Mason Richman also suffered a major injury.
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on August 30, 2026 — The Full Moon has passed, but it's still shining big and bright in the sky.
Sonos launches new ‘Ultra’ headphones and soundbar, plus more - 9to5Mac — Sonos has announced two new hardware products today: Ace headphones and a Beam soundbar, both with ‘Ultra’ branding.
Sunlight Finds You — I’m named Eleanor because I was born a week after Eleanor Roosevelt came to Kansas City to campaign for her husband. At the time, my parents were living in Rolla, Missouri, and my mother said that …
Helicopter pilot describes what he's seen rescuing people in Nepal — Andy Thapa is a charter and rescue pilot for a Nepali helicopter company. He's been rescuing people stranded by the catastrophic flooding, and carrying them to safety.
Photographer Reveals How He Captured Tupac Shakur's Final Moments — It's one of the most notorious images of all time.
Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging — Gulf states are building overlapping partnerships that complement, rather than replace, the US security role.
Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2026 — Why every American writer “must in their prose or poetry pen their own Declaration of Independence,” unconsciously or otherwise. | Lit Hub Criticism Rosa Montero explores the relationship between w…
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity — “Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.”
What Happens When We Die — “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
Haute & Freddy Share New Single "Touch Touch": Listen — Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp are two seasoned pop-industry songwriters who teamed up to form the retro art-pop duo Haute & Freddy, and they released their debut album Big Disgrace earlier this year. It’s really good!…
Le Creuset, Ninja, and 11 More Labor Day Kitchen Deals I’m Shopping Early — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//at/house%20tours/2026/june/marcelline-b/tours-newyork-marcelline-b-8M1A9132"> Labor Day might be a week away, but these deals are ready to be…
Inside Anonymous Content’s Comeback: A New CEO, a Controversial Elon Musk Doc and Climate Change Drama ‘A Statement’ Have Hollywood Buzzing — How Anonymous Content CEO Darren Walker is helping the production and management company get its momentum back.
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…
Pokémon Champions review: Peak monster battling — If you want to be the very best, Pokémon Champions is your new arena.
China-linked hackers backdoored executives' laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren't using — <p>A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a…
Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and All Things Thru-Hiking — The Trek is All Things Thru-Hiking. We share stories, advice, news, and resources from the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and all long trails in between.
Inside the Business of Ultra Luxury Travel — Luxury Travel and Event Expert Olivia Ferney sits down with Lisa Mateo, Joe Mathieu and Carol Massar on Bloomberg This Weekend and shares how she has built a business catering to ultrawealthy clients whose requests can range from…
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech — “Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears…
How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte — The cultivation of sweet-tasting foodstuffs has shaped Caribbean history for five hundred years. And in the late 1800s, after slavery’s end in the British islands, sugar was joined by another cash …
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart — “If you can fall in love again and again … if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you’ve got it half…
Lit Hub Weekly: June 29 – July 3, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub Histo…
The Depopulation — Among all the far-off places, and all the deserted and unknown cities, among all the lawless, godless regions, the Guayrá was an oasis. A small, lush country under a torn and tattered sunset, out i…
Labor of Love: On Editing and the Rewards of Collaborative Effort — From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…
Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical t…
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…
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
‘Look up’ app for Googlebooks appears on Play Store, currently works on phones — Following Magic Pointer and Desktop Camera, Google has now released a “Look up” app for Googlebooks. As of today...
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…
Partners Group Exits Bubble-Tea Brand Gong Cha After Bain Buyout — Partners Group will exit its private credit investment in Gong cha after Bain Capital bought the Taiwanese bubble-tea brand from TA Associates this month.
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…