Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story — I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy…
Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem — For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using…
Can India’s youth-led protest movement bring lasting change? — Protesters refuse to back down until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.
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…
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 …
Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI — In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."
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.
Return to Sender: The Grumman LLV Has Finally Reached the End of Its Mail Delivery Days — The Grumman LLV—for Long Life Vehicle—mail truck is proof that sometimes federal bureaucrats get it right. The aluminum-bodied lump just completed four decades as the principal mail…
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…
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The Absurd Virtual Spectacle of Trump’s D.C. — I recently moved away from Washington, but there’s no way to escape propagandistic imagery of the President’s urban vanity projects.
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…
Life and Death in the American Suburbs — Kid life is fast. More is happening than the mind can hold. You are sitting in a daydream in a chair while outside the window a bird is whistling a tune you never hear. You get lost in your own tho…
this guy turned his marginalia from 20 years of reading into a searchable database, so you can see what random thoughts people scribbled in the margins of their favorite books 📚✨
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors — “Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
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…
Paradise Revisited - Longreads — "What Darwin saw in the Galápagos."
Ebola outbreak: 'Speed, money and compassion' - lessons from a survivor and other experts — Those caught up in West Africa's Ebola outbreak a decade ago on how best to tackle the current epidemic.
What Co-Writing a Book on Shakespeare Taught Us About Marriage and Parenthood — There was, last fall, a lot pulling us to see the movie Hamnet—the Shakespearean subject matter, the caliber of the actors, the breathless reviews—but, as the parents of still-relatively newborn tw…
If I get this wrong, 50,000 people will hear it. — At Worcester Cathedral, I finally take on a challenge that hundreds of people have suggested: bellringing. | 📰 AD: Avoid clickbait and ragebait with 40% off Ground News' Vantage plan! Use this link: https://ground.news/tom 🗺️…
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein — NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.
A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service’s The Cremation of Sam McGee is a lyrical poem lodged deeply in the folds of my brain—but, naively, unconsciously, I figured my brother was the only other living soul who could say t…
Wattpad - Where stories live — Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
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. …
I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay. — In Leicestershire, at @johntaylorsbellfoundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese. ▶️ Episode 2 is on Nebula right now! https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott
War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now — We Will Rue The Day
Elegant Dirty Diary Entry by Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-Sperling — May 7, 2026 – New books by César Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Maïa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.
the library of congress catalogs what words were actually used in each year. watching 'google' jump from zero to omnipresent between 1998 and 2002 is something else
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The Torture Chamber of British Politics Crushes Its Latest Prime Minister — Keir Starmer becomes the sixth Prime Minister over the past decade to resign, surrendering to the U.K.’s manifold problems.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads — In this edition: • Showing our age • Special delivery • Unfriendly wagers • A shore thing • Sale therapy
The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days) - Longreads — "Clarke Seicher is something much more specific and much rarer: a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation."
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…
Lit Hub Weekly: May 18 – 22, 2026 — “I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film Kath…
Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist — A gunshot pierced the calm. Then there was silence, followed by sounds of a commotion. A man came running towards them, but turned and hid in a bush as soon as he saw George Forster and his compani…
“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 …
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…
Preventing WWIII in Europe’s New Cold War — The cross of the Church of All Saviors is black against a pale winter sky. Inside, between pink stone walls, a young priest swings frankincense in a silver thurible. Fragrant curls of smoke rise th…
Lit Hub Daily: May 22, 2026 — Everyone is an AI cop now, even if they don’t know it: a past Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner weighs in on the recent scandal. | Lit Hub Criticism Does Xi Jinping really think China is Athens…
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.
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse — I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
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.
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.
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…
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…
US-Iran Deal Hope Grows; SpaceX Sinks After AI Splurge | The Asia Trade 8/5/2026 — "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn and Haidi…
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…
Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged — Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.
Huge crater after back-to-back Israeli strikes on Gaza refugee camp — Huge crater after back-to-back Israeli strikes on Gaza refugee camp.
Gordon Ramsay Visits Islands Around the US | Uncharted MEGA Episode | National Geographic — In this America 250 special MEGA episode of Uncharted, Gordon Ramsay gets a taste of America's unique island culture. He first travels to the Florida Keys, where he catches stone crab in…
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.
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Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes — Abel Jansma is a scientist studying emergence, higher-order interactions, information theory, and complex systems across biology and artificial intelligence.
Richard Hammond fined £999 for speeding offences — The TV host is caught speeding twice in Herefordshire in the space of three weeks, magistrates hear.
Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies — One day in 1970, Hobby Lobby’s oft-told origin story goes, twenty-eight-year-old David Green was sitting at a lunch counter in Oklahoma City sharing frustrations with fellow…
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)
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them — Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.
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…
How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created — The most dramatic moment in Jane Austen’s Emma, and, arguably, in her whole body of work, has nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’…