Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026 — What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but it could also be called democracy.…
An Angel Watching Over Me: On Exile, Estrangement and Placelessness in Paris — 1. The International Refugee Organization (IRO) put the three women up in Paris. My eighteen-year-old mother, Ursula; her sister, Traute; and my grandmother, Gertrud. It was supposed to be a one-ni…
How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older — “In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
Will the FIFA World Cup be the economic bonanza US cities were promised? — Cities remain optimistic despite lagging hotel bookings and high ticket prices that might deter foreign travellers.
Wordle today: The answer and hints for June 2, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1809.
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank) — The first character I ever became obsessed with was Captain Hook. I couldn’t have been more than three or four, though I was already weird; I saw the 1953 Disney version of Peter Pan and im
How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
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World Cup Daily: Norway fans' 'Viking Row' takes over Times Square; Germany, Netherlands in action — It's yet another weekend of 2026 FIFA World Cup action, with four games slated for Saturday, starting with Netherlands-Sweden.
“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
Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis. — Rejoice, friends! The great city of Minneapolis is getting a new indie press. Lost Kite Editions (LKE) is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in poetry and literary prose. The press aim
Auctions: Marteau & Co.'s "Heat Wave" Sale Features Unique Independents And An Education On Lesser-Known Makers — There are some pretty obvious big-name watches with big-ticket prices, but there are a few names that most people haven't heard of, which is a shame for how good they
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19 Novels You Need to Read This Summer — The days are getting longer. The weather is—well, unpredictable, but trending warm. The children are becoming restless. Summer is nearly upon us, and you probably need something to read. (You signe…
How we contain Claude across products — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month. — It’s pride month! What better time to go spelunking in the archive, so as to situate the current moment, or thank an ancestor? I’ve been on a research kick, personally. Thanks to round-…
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
An Interview with Ben Thompson at the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications Conference — An interview with me about the implications of the compute shortage on Aggregation Theory, consumer AI, and more.
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The 13 Best Book Covers of May — Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month, despite the spring of it all, my favorite covers were strange and dark, their meanings obscure. Is it my mood, or the designersR…
California Attorney General sues 23andMe successor for 2023 data breach — Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges the company lied about the breach's severity.
House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood — The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved."
Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother — “All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler, and Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book r…
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…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
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Five Things I Got Wrong in My First Novel, According to My Dad — My dad worked with kids for forty years, teenage boys mostly, who’d been in trouble and were committed through the state to live somewhere else a while in hopes of getting themselves together. They…
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…
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Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…
New ASUS XBOX ROG ALLY X20 looks insane — ASUS and Mircosoft collabs yet again for the 20th aniversary for ASUS with a brand new handheld!
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
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Never Stop Driving #188: Are Chinese Car Bodies Legit? — The hottest recent piece from Hagerty Media, with more than 3.8 million views in only two weeks, is a video about an incredible car-body factory in China. Some 200 miles north of Shanghai, Jiangsu Juncheng Vehicle Industry
OpenAI reportedly considering price cuts to push back against competitors — Lower token costs incoming?
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship — “Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body — IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while getting around the need for invasive egg retrievals and embryo transfers
“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,…
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 …
The Internet Archive is quietly digitizing every library card catalog ever made... and you can search them all in one place. Weird rabbit hole if you like old classification systems.
Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…