Lit Hub Daily: May 29, 2026 — Sara Youngblood Gregory looks at the speculative possibilities of queer literature and the last decade of AIDS writing. | Lit Hub Criticism “I invite you to enter the ball pit of your imagination, …
Jeff Bezos consortium nears deal to buy stake in Liverpool FC: Reports — Investment reportedly values the club at about $5.9bn, making it one of the largest ever football club valuations.
What is the Future of Ethnic Studies? — When we come upon a fork in the road—two roads diverging in a yellow wood—it might be said that the decision of which way to go is a matter of impulse, rather than intention. At least, that is what…
Alice in Wonderland is mostly math jokes — Storica — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, for twenty-six years. He wrote textbooks defending Euclid and treatises on symbolic logic. The children's book he is now famous for is, when you read it as a
There's a museum that tracks every Air Jordan colorway ever made — and you can see the exact year Nike decided to go completely feral with the designs.
Sneaker grail prices have inverted twice in the last year. The resale market built on scarcity just got undercut by its own logic.
Lit Hub Daily: July 14, 2026 — “I usually just write my way into things.” Eric Olson profiles Sigrid Nunez on the release of her collection, It Will Come Back to You. | Lit Hub Craft Angela Flournoy explores why Jean…
BookRix - Eine Community für deine Stories — Bleibe in Kontakt mit Autor:innen, Leser:innen, Geschichten und allem, was dazugehört! Tritt BookRix bei, um zu entdecken, zu teilen und dich mit einer leidenschaftlichen Community von Geschichten Liebhaber:innen zu verbinden.
A literary map where every book is pinned to where its story actually takes place... and you can see how many novels are crammed into like three city blocks in Manhattan.
Ben-Gvir calls for nightly killings of Palestinians in Gaza — Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza.
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there's a whole database of sneaker colorways mapped by year and brand—seeing how the palettes shifted from the 90s to now is actually fascinating 🎨
India’s ethanol rush prompts anger among vehicle owners, questions for gov’t — Indian petrol stations now only offer fuel with 20 percent ethanol blended in. But the rushed move triggers criticism.
“Boring Tree” — I feel like I’m being followed by a woman. She has the kind of gait where her feet point a bit outwards, and she kicks them with a little huff to get more from every step, only to land heavy on the…
Canva launches Code 2.0, offering AI website building to every user — including free accounts — <p><a href="https://www.canva.com/">Canva</a> on Tuesday launched <a href="https://www.canva.com/ai-code-generator/">Canva Code 2.0</a>, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool…
Jim Jones and Me: On Growing Up Guyanese-American in the Shadow of Jonestown — On July 3rd, The New York Times published an article titled “The Site of the Jonestown Massacre Opens to Tourists. Some Ask Why.” In it, Genevieve Glatsky reports on the mixed reception the tour re…
Here are the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction. — Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to th…
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System — When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…
library book had a handwritten note tucked in the back: 'if you're reading this, you've already decided the ending.' spent the whole book trying to figure out what that meant. it wasn't about the plot.
The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration — Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and …
How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change — We are living in a time of massive upheaval—of grave crisis and also enormous opportunity. The world is transforming at a breakneck pace and will continue to change dramatically in our lifetime. Th…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Famous Men — He doesn’t remember me, but I know who he is. The biographer and I met at a party Nathaniel took me to about a year after I arrived in New York, a literary fundraiser at one of those apartments whe…
Hardliners and moderates: What do Iran’s factions think of deal with US? — Factional divisions in Iran remain as leaders debate the implementation of deal with the US, amid fears of capitulation.
How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback — Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks …
How Christopher Nolan weaponized Matt Damon's persona for 'The Odyssey' — What if Odysseus isn't the hero the songs sing about?
England have another level we can reach - Kane — Captain Harry Kane says England "have another level we can reach" as they bid to win the World Cup for the first time since 1966.
“Wild Light” — I wake up on a Tuesday cloaked in light. The light isn’t simply radiating off me. It is spitting and sparking. It feels like a second skin. My husband begins to stir next to me. I can tell he is an…
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,…
Lit Hub Daily: June 25, 2026 — Anthony Aycock looks back at Island Trees v. Pico, the first (and only) book ban case ever heard by the Supreme Court. | Lit Hub Politics TV writer and novelist Rasheed Newson talks to Spiro Skento…
What to read next if you loved I Love Boosters. — Last weekend, Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters hit theaters, blowing a breath of fresh air into the American cinema. Riley, the funkmaster filmmaker behind 2018’s Sorry to Bother You, is b…
The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders — “Now is the time for Helter Skelter,” Charles Manson is said to have said, and then the family went out and committed two nights of violence that meant to “shock the world” and “instill fear into t…
Photographer's Camera Gear Gets Jet Washed by 20-Foot Wave in Tahiti — He was capturing surf action.
Odd Lots: The Sharps Who Dominate Prediction Markets (Podcast) — Here’s a couple things about prediction markets. A lot of it is pure gambling and speculation, much of it on things with very little economic relevance. Another fact is that in all likelihood, if you yourself…
Found out sneaker resellers use thermal cameras to spot fakes at conventions? Apparently the glue composition literally shows up different
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today! — Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee…
“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 …
How Israel Turned Gaza Into an “Annihilation Zone” — The Caterpillars have been here for a long time. In August 1950 the area that came to be known as the Gaza Strip was cut off from the rest of Palestine by a ditch carved into the soil by a single-b…
Drop test claims Pixel 11 Pro, specifically the smaller one, could break more easily — Google is touting better scratch resistance on its new Pixel 11 Pro phones but, apparently, smaller one doesn’t handle drops...
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. …
counterpoint: sneaker resale sites won't show you the actual wear patterns on the sole, which is basically the whole story of whether a shoe actually lived or just sat in a closet
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World — The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — al
Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing. — If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t check out new books the way normal people do. Your average reader, when…
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W — “The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…
Feeling Creatively Stuck? Try Following the Routines of Other Types of Artists — Before the sun rose, while her children slept, Toni Morrison hauled herself from her bed to her desk and began to write. Stephen King wrote at a child’s tiny desk in a trailer. In the basement of P…
Will Poulter and Noah Centineo Went to Ohio to Immerse Themselves in the Addiction Recovery System for ‘Union County’ — IndieWire talks to Will Poulter and Noah Centineo about embedding themselves in an Ohio drug recovery program for Sundance title 'Union County.'
NYT Strands hints, answers for July 17, 2026 — Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today! — The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. T…
G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life — Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards — This essay began as a plea which turned out, as desires sometimes do, to be a little psychic (“That woman, I conjured her,” says Gwyneth Paltrow’s overwrought Plath in the failed 2003 biopic Sylvia…
Fantasy Football 'Do Draft' list: Derrick Henry, Patrick Mahomes among undervalued players to pick — You've read the "Do Not Draft" list. Now, Eric Karabell lists players being drafted later than they should be.
An Imaginary Throuple Saved My Writing Career — Let’s say throughout my twenties, all I did—literally—was write; whatever I could, in hopes my parents might read it, see me, grow up, and care. Let’s say throughout my twenties, I published three …
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny — “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
A Slim Phone Bag Is the Key to Unencumbered, Hands-Free Travel — Perfect for sightseeing, cruising, or boarding a flight, these compact purses keep your device easy to reach.
A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield — Oh, to live in a room filled with the objects described by Katherine Mansfield. To arrange her combs, playing cards, and enamel boxes, to try on “the most amusing orange coat with a procession of b…
New York Times reveals Trump administration subpoena over North Korea story — The Justice Department faces criticism for increasing use of subpoenas in attempts to compel journalists to reveal info.
The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature — “In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases:…
Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today! — The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy.…
Kevin Young has won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize. — Last night, at an event in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2026 winner: Kevin Young’s …
Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction — Through historical fiction, many BIOPOC authors help to reclaim the voices of our past and ensure that these sheroes are finally recognized and celebrated. These works collectively illuminate the m…