Everything “The Bear” Gets Right and Wrong, According to Professional Chefs — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//stock/TCDBEAR_FX096-tk"> “Yes, chef!” <a…
this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts — The plight of the hedge fund says more about them than about its 24-year-old founder
What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common? — Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city was quiet and my th…
Some of TV’s Top Stars Have Yet to Win an Emmy — IndieWire highlights several Emmy-nominated actors who have made TV history, but have so far left the awards show empty-handed.
Diatoms and the Meaning of Life — In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…
Namwali Serpell and Saeed Jones on Toni Morrison, “Master of Shade” — In the words of drag performer Dorian Corey, shade requires you to “go to the fine point.” To throw shade—to insult your subject, either a text or a person, with maximum flare and make …
On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet — Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far…
Columbia House Is Shutting Down — We, too, were shocked they still existed
4% Rule Doesn't Reflect Realities of Retirement, Says Bruce Wolfe — Soaring markets have swollen the ranks of 401(k) millionaires, and companies have largely freed themselves from costly traditional pension plans in favor of self-directed, employee-funded savings that bestow…
Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back — A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.
Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) — 🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books…
A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield — Perhaps every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield. Discerning movie critic, reader, author of detective stories, skater and mean dancer, she is a very accomplished ten-y…
May’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say, Douglas Stuart’s John of John, and Ali Smith’s Glyph all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit H…
someone mapped out every maintained fire tower in the US you can actually climb, with the ones that still have someone living in them during fire season 🗺️ 🔥
Google Photos for Android rolling out saved Stickers folder — After introducing custom stickers in February, Google Photos for Android now saves and stores everything you've created in a folder.
Front-end coding challenges using a real-life workflow | Frontend Mentor — Improve your front-end skills by building real projects. Solve real-world HTML, CSS and JavaScript challenges whilst working to professional designs.
Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex — Sex is an integral part of a person’s life, but when it appears in fiction it can sometimes feel hesitant or awkward on the one hand, or risky or provocative, deployed as a demand for attention, on…
Lowe's Halloween animatronics 2026: Shop the new collection online — The $429 Talking Lighted Skeleton Watcher is the tallest Halloween prop on the market this year.
Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2026 — How it feels when one of your poems is literally going to the Moon. | Lit Hub Nature Why Steven W. Thrasher is suing Northwestern University (and the US government). | Lit Hub Politics “Put s…
Lit Hub Weekly: July 6 – 10, 2026 — Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways women writers arrange the balance between creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft How Jane Austen subverted the kind of romance she mastered by writing Emma. | …
Meta is 'pausing' employee tracking program after it let the whole company see sensitive data — This won't make the already-controversial AI training endeavor any more popular.
Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August. — August, amazingly, approaches, the final month in a summer that has at once felt slow and like it has slipped by with the curious swiftness of a half-remembered dream. Still, the summer is not over…
IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus — Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by the parents.
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die. — In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 n…
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…
Judge nixes Trump lawsuit alleging Harvard did not protect Jewish students — Ruling latest setback in Trump administration response to Gaza war protests that swept college campuses.
British Book Awards: Virginia Giuffre’s memoir wins top book prize — Nobody's Girl, published last year, detailed Giuffre's encounters with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
If Rachel Aviv Weren’t a Writer, She’d Be a Psychologist — Rachel Aviv’s new book, You Won’t Get Free of It, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about writer’s block, writing routines, favorite books, an…
Australia to begin gun buyback scheme in response to Bondi shooting — Australia will begin buying back guns in November, almost a year after a shooting at Sydney's Bondi killed 15 people.
Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?) — The Mayflower Pilgrims believed that they were freedom seekers, escaping centuries of bondage. William Bradford, a Mayflower passenger who served as Plymouth’s longtime governor, began h
Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2026 — Xiao Hai remembers balancing brutal night shifts on the production floor with writing poetry. | Lit Hub Memoir “We can be demure and brat, sense and sensibility, sometimes in quick succession or al…
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…
Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley…) — The train pulled into Nice at 11:20pm. It was December 31st, 2021, and after I had found my small pension-hotel to drop off my bag, I went out into the streets. There was a flurry of excitemen
Georgia O’Keeffe on What It Means to Be an Artist — “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”
Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama. — Some good old-fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. Pairs well with mint juleps and malaise, I think. This week, those of this opinion were darkly pleased to learn that Rachel…
How many people are dying as a result of USAID’s demise? — Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit
The Maxwell Conjecture is False — We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell's conjecture that the field of \(n\) point charges has at most…
Book Corners — Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots.
this library cataloged every book ever mentioned in a book & now you can fall down the rabbit hole of what characters were actually reading 📚✨
How Leprosy Was Used as a Weapon Against Hawaii’s Indigenous Population — Father Damien was a dirty man. Everyone agreed on that. Dirt would accumulate under his fingernails; he rarely washed his hands. His clothes—his habitual cassock and wide-brimmed hat—were worn for …
Best Samsung Galaxy Watch deal: Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 comes with a $100 Amazon gift card — Rugged, dive-rated, and now sweetened with a bonus.
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…
7 arts and crafts accessories to 3D print for your weekend projects (Aug 14 - 16) — Get crafty this weekend.
T-Mobile breaks silence over nationwide outage — The company's mobile network went down for hours on Monday.
Moroccan police arrest more than 100 people as they attempt to enter Ceuta — Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode — describe
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection — “We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
This Week in Literary History: America Turns 250 — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. This week, the United States of America turns 250. It’s a milestone that brings mixed feelings at best, considering the re…
Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List — For the past six years, I’ve been working on a project that I describe to strangers and casual acquaintances as “a book about flowers,” and to friends and family as “a book about flowers and my not…
Blackstone, Blue Owl Private Credit Funds Offer High-Grade Bonds — Two private credit funds are offering investment-grade bonds Monday, following a lull of such deals to start the third quarter.
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager — Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
bought a 'camping tent' from walmart and the rain fly doesn't actually cover the door. went full soaking wet at 2am and realized it's all marketing! 🤦♂️💀 why would they design it like that
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…
We weren't even scared — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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…
How Extreme Heat Affects Europe's Key Rivers — Europe’s biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region’s heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a series of heat waves. Bloomberg's Eva Brendel breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Russia Has Damaged or Destroyed Over 4,500 Cultural Sites in Ukraine — The National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum are among the 141 museums and galleries affected.