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 …
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Rainford-Brent and Finn give a catching masterclass — After some of the incredible catches in the Hundred this year, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Steven Finn talk about the technique that goes in to them.
Tatjana von Stein blends Jugendstil style with 1980s glamour for The Dean Munich — <p>French-German designer Tatjana von Stein designed hundreds of bespoke lights and furnishings for this hotel in Munich, drawing on the city's art nouveau style and its exuberant nightlife…
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How City Kids Used to Play on the Streets of New York — A retrospective of Martha Cooper’s work shows the ramshackle toys and improvised games from a bygone era of growing up.
“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
“A Table for Six” — Yoon and his wife are the first to arrive. My wife leads them to the living room. I’d been standing by the balcony window, watching the dark sky dump snow. It’s really coming down. In the distance,…
Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics — Joan is eighty-five years old, and I fell a little in love with her on Thanksgiving. She was sitting on our couch reading a copy of The Aeneid that she had plucked from the…
Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist — Trump falsely claimed the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal" and linked shots to autism.
The Last Mozart — At the age of twenty-one, when I was a senior in college majoring in music composition, my friends took to calling me “The Youngest Spy in the World.” I let them. More than that, I leaned into it, …

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Guiding ships with Moire patterns — I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent …
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Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, Leila Slimani, and more: 23 new books out today! — More heavy-hitters descending on our bookstores this morning: Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto, and Leila Slimani’s I’ll Take the Fire are only to …
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A.O.C.’s Eggs and the Working Woman’s Inconvenient Truth — By preserving her fertility, the youngest woman elected to Congress is facing trade-offs familiar to many women. By doing it publicly, she’s driving conservatives crazy.
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Meet the 26-Year-Old Who’s Saving L.A. Cinemas — Save Your Cinema campaign leader Ben Steinberg breaks down how he helped rescue the Cinerama Dome and ArcLight in Hollywood from oblivion.
Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Ed Park I am eternally dipping into the world of Charles Portis (especially The Dog of the South and True Grit), Nicholson…

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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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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…
'Unprecedented' rains in Japan kill six people — The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport.
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Australia Home Price Drop Adds to Restrictive Stance: RBA’s Kent — Australia’s softening housing market is contributing to financial conditions potentially being a bit more restrictive than otherwise, the Reserve Bank’s Assistant Governor Chris Kent said at an event.
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