“Copernicus Is Dying” — It seems impossible, but the lanky Petco cashier with the shiny blond pompadour insists that he’s telling the truth. “A shortage?” I ask. He nods. “All of them?” He nods again. I look at his name t…
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (Al…
The Golden Age of the American Idiot — A new game show features celebrities competing for the title of “Nation’s Dumbest.” How did stupidity become a badge of honor?
Lit Hub Daily: August 10, 2026 — On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they sti…
The 10 Longest Nonstop Flights in the World Right Now — These routes cross oceans, continents, and enough time zones to test even seasoned flyers.
John Wilson and “The History of Concrete” — The documentary filmmaker met up with the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz at Wilson’s independent movie theatre to discuss his newest endeavor.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 15 – 19, 2026 — Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit Hub Criticism Th…
The spell that wouldn't leave · mahl.me — On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play — Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.
One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement — YouTube, Snap, and TikTok also settled, but there’s still thousands of cases on deck.
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…
Who Is America’s Homer? | Plough — If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked a posse of authors and…
War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now — We Will Rue The Day
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Lit Hub Daily: July 20, 2026 — “For years I’ve been trying to obtain Greek citizenship, which, if one of your parents was born in Greece, can be, ostensibly, a straightforward process.” On experiencing your family…
This Word Does Not Exist — This Word Does Not Exist uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words.
Paradise Revisited - Longreads — "What Darwin saw in the Galápagos."
Making of a Poem: Hannah Piette on “Nijinsky Dancing” — “Nijinsky’s face layered in makeup became an apt figure for the poem I wanted to write—one in which a ‘civilian face’ could be recognized only through its effacement.”
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Your Samsung Galaxy has 2 features that are begging for NFC tags instead of buttons — No longer is it tapping around on the screen; it is just tap-and-go.
The Real Life Mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs - Longreads — "The fragility and fantasy of old America."
Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI. — In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical …
US military fires on cargo vessel it said sought to break Iran blockade — CENTCOM says helicopter fired at engine room of Panama-flagged Vela Nova as US-Iran diplomacy remains stalled.
Indonesia Capital Flight Caps Most-Profitable Bank’s Wealth Push — Indonesia’s biggest non-state bank said capital flight has hampered efforts to expand its wealth management business, underscoring how an erosion of investor confidence is hindering the private sector in…
Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2026 — Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History It’s finally your chance to snag books by Slutty Cheff, Nicholas Boggs, Benedict Nguyen, and more in paperback. | L…
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…
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness — “If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.”
Manil Suri on Visualizing Your Book’s Narrative Structure — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here’s a nifty tool I’ve devised which authors might want to try out for themselves. It’s free, easy to use, and reveals t…
Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI — In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."
Announcing Our Summer Issue — Featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.
“Vulnerability as a Valid Way.” 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June — I’m thrilled to be joining Rebecca Morgan Frank as co-poetry columnist—I’ll be here every other month with seven new poetry collections. “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke is perhaps …
Sad Love Stories Are the Best Stories: A Reading List in Praise of Messy Love — Despite the prevalence of happy romantic heroes, I’m most intrigued by the ambiguous love story. My favorite titles reveal that the land of love can be treacherous terrain—migration, murder, parent…
What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? — I bought a book on my Kindle — a thing I have done many times before. I exchanged money for goods, as one is supposed to do in a capitalist society. Then this happened. I wonder what response Jeff …
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Shouts & Murmurs by Larry Doyle: Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected — Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more.
The Race to Be the First Democratic Primary State — How the debate over the first-in-the-nation primary became a battle over the future of the Democratic Party.
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. — The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…
“How to be a Black Author” — After Lorrie Moore and Kiese Laymon. You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and B…
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The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive — “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to…
Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today! — August zooms on, or trickles on, depending on how you look at it. We’re reaching a quieter moment of the publishing cycle: a few weeks of slowness and peace before the onslaught of September.…
The Pixel 11 Pro is a great phone, no thanks to its flashiest new features — Forget HiLight and Proactive Assistance. The Pixel 11 Pro is at its best with focused new tools that actually work.
De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison — “I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising…
The Point | A magazine of the examined life — The Point is a magazine of philosophical writing on everyday life and culture that is published three times a year in print and continuously online.
Am I the Asshole For Abandoning My First Love, Fantasy? — Hey there, howdy! Welcome back to another enormously entertaining episode of Am I the Literary Asshole?, an advice column that runs on Steel Reserve and Writer’s Tears. I’m your host, Kristen Arnet…
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism — Roughly a decade ago, shortly after I moved from Seattle to a nearby suburb, I slid into a bipolar mixed episode for a period of a month or so before it descended into straight depression. During m…
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The Cold Email — Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai” — The author reads his story from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine.
Summer Markets Make Stocks Happy: 3-Minutes MLIV — Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)
María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile — The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities.
What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles? — Close to forty years ago, Derek Walcott wrote something scathing about V.S. Naipaul. The two writers—both from the Caribbean, both Nobel laureates—were still alive then. Walcott wrote the following…
“The Forest is the Therapist.” On the Art of Noticing — Near the summit of Volcan Mountain, Janice Bina-Smith sits with a group of us in a circle on crunching oak leaves. The red ants don’t seem to be in a biting mood. Patches of sky above are clear. Gu…
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love — “When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain — It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.
Migraines and acne among five more conditions pharmacists can treat — Pharmacies in England will soon offer treatments for a total of 12 common conditions which save people going to their GP first.
New York Builds Data Team to Target Consumer Ripoffs — New York City is building a 36-person bureau of data scientists, technologists and economists to analyze company records for potential violations involving pricing, wages and other consumer and worker protections. NYC…
Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash? — One book on waste management that has stayed by my side for years is Giants of Garbage by Canadian journalist Harold Crooks. That book is my bible. The central question it asks is a vital one: Is i…
Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson — In her acceptance speech upon receiving the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us (1951), biologist and author Rachel Carson (1907–1964) explained: “If there is poetry in my book about the sea,…