Tasting Misery: 20 Worst Tasting History Recipes — Top 20 Worst Tasting History Recipes Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIkaZtzr9JDkPx-ux62U45LltFYbDkIWo&si=xL6ijk6EsT82jP2B 20. https://youtu.be/iWlqxGQXZx8?si=B2QtE4lugdksCCOK 19. https://youtu.be/k6VBdGAEJyc?si=A
The Annotated Nightstand: What Mark Haber is Reading Now, and Next — Mark Haber’s Ada begins largely how it ends (no spoilers): Gerard Desacroux IV, the impish, recently-made-ruler of a small fiefdom in a region—Saxony or Bavaria, he doesn’t know—paces endlessly (“t…
Rising golf star, 18, dies after brain haemorrhage — Promising Australian golfer Jessica Bang dies at the age of 18 after suffering a brain haemorrhage as she prepared for a tournament in Thailand.
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead — It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to…
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are — “My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this …
TV Production Designers Talk Evolving Without Losing Their Original Vision at IndieWire’s Craft Roundtables — Watch — Watch the production design panel from IndieWire's 2026 TV Craft Roundtables.
The BEST Chicken Marinades We Use Week After Week — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2024-06-grilled-chicken-thighs/grilled-chicken-thighs-163"> When you want to take chicken to the next level, a great marinade can do all the heavy…
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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…
watched a chef spend three minutes explaining why your pan isn't hot enough — and it actually rewired how i cook eggs 🍳😤 counterpoint: we've all been doing this wrong
Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim — If Americans think of the August 1, 1966, UT Austin shooting at all, they likely consider it dry, distant, and vaguely settled history that pales in the wake of recent atrocities. They may…
Mountain Hardwear Promo Codes | June 2026 — Discover exclusive savings on premium outdoor apparel and equipment with our comprehensive guide to Mountain Hardwear coupons, promo codes, and rewards.
The Brilliant $24 Organizer That Helped Me Hide My Kitchen Cord Clutter — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//at/house%20tours/2022-03/Carina%20R/kulig_kottage22"> It’s so easy! <a…
How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers) — I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with questions to me about what is happening at home. The…
Introducing The Kitchn’s New Membership Program, Kitchn+ — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Design/Special-Projects/2026/03_Membership/Join%20Images/TK_Plus-Tomato-PostPage-v2"> Subscribe to Kitchn+ and get our brand-new print magazine, exclusive…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our fivesome of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Dave Portnoy’s Cancel Me If You Can, James Lasdun on Irvine Welsh’s Men in Love, Gabriel Winslow-Yost on George Saunders’s Vigil,…
For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment — The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis. The amount of fossil fuels consumed by the world population a…
The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter — Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to d…
My Dad's Secret for "The Best Potato Salad of Your Life" — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2024-04-potato-salad/potato-salad-057"> It’s the only potato salad I’ll eat. <a…
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…
Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI — Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI.
This Week in Literary History: O. Henry is Released from Prison — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Famously, O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), author of “The Gift of the Magi,” and one of the most celebrat…
Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I am an unapologetic collector of gossip. Bring me your tales of accidental reply-all, familial faux-pas, sartorial misadv…
How to Spot and How to Stop a Liar: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization — “No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Chef José Andrés Invites Us Over for Paella — A backyard party, a centuries-old Valencian dish, and a chef and humanitarian who wants you at the table.
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media — I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commer…
7 Best Wines You Can Buy at Costco (Yes, Kirkland Signature Made the List … More Than Once) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//stock/shutterstock_2661221977"> Red, white, and sparkling! <a…
Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This? — At his recent meeting with the US President Donald Trump, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked: “Can China and the United States transcend the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and for
“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before” — It started with a toaster and ended with a Maytag washerdryer combo and four new steel-belted radials. In between, the UPS, FedEx, Lowe’s deliverer, or mail carrier set down on my front porch a Cui…
On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life — The letter that my eye doctor had sent to the state’s agency included diagnosis and prognosis, and it described my functional limitations: some trouble reading print and computer text, more trouble…
From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life — Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a horizonl…
The Rumpus is back! — Last year, publishing power couple Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman acquired beloved online lit mag The Rumpus. Today, the new leaders celebrated the launch of their rebranded site with new essays, fi…
Namwali Serpell and Kortney Morrow on Toni Morrison’s Paradise — Toni Morrison didn’t want a monument or statue erected in her honor; she wanted a dedicated reading room in her hometown public library, a space that could allow for change and continuous eng…
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…
Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2026 — Henry Power tackles an age old question: How many Homers were there, actually? | Lit Hub History “The Odyssey is as relevant as ever it was. And I, for one, cannot wait for the next rendition…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks — <p>Earlier today, <a href="https://openai.com/index/expanding-daybreak-as-the-cyber-defense-window-narrows/">OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber</a>, a specialized model designed to…
There is now an archive of eulogies given by Palestinian journalists to their martyred colleagues. — “[They] are the hands that have kept every standard of humanity from collapse, that have kept the world from transforming entirely into a dark, oppressive, savage world. A world…
Quietly Flamboyant: In Praise of Sober Queerness — In the spring of 1983, the poet Eileen Myles went for a walk with their friend Tom in Manhattan. There was perhaps nothing remarkable about this walk, only that the light “clustered around th…
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, …
Smashed Zucchini With Tahini-Ginger Dressing — Raw zucchini has never tasted better.
US launches seventh straight night of strikes on Iran — The US military says it's degrading Iran's military but has been accused by Tehran of targeting civilian infrastructure.
Merci, Marjane: What the <em<Persepolis Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile — I’m in my car, in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in South Pasadena. On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’…
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All — If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding…
Am I the Asshole For Refusing an Invitation to Submit Work? — Howdy, friends! Welcome back to another perfect installment of Am I The Literary Asshole?, a drunken advice column that’s just happy to be here. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m proud to anno…
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty — “In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…
Advanced radiotherapy for prostate cancer to cut sessions from 20 to five — Some men in England with the disease will now be offered an advanced form of treatment on the NHS.
The $30 Organizing Gem That Will Triple Your Storage Space (It Has Nearly 2,800 5-Star Reviews) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//at/living/2022-11/kitchen-backsplash/green-kitchen-backsplash"> One shopper bought 3! <a…
Fujifilm Celebrates Japan's Rich Photographic History — Japan has loved photography for nearly 200 years.
Five totally plausible reading trends to watch out for this summer. — What’s everyone reading this summer? No, better yet—what do we think everyone else will be reading? Is 2026 the season of the post-trauma plot? Are we reading big books, or novellas? Indoors …
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…
Lit Hub Daily: June 18, 2026 — Through layers of loss and sorrow, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the bleakest times, art, writing, and human connection are ra…
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AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules — Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real
On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity — In the twenty-first century, the debates about constituting the antisemitic category of the Jews sharpened after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the debates about colonialism, indig…
Beneath the Wallpaper: On Art, Photography and Hidden Everyday Violence — From the linen a squall rises and the bones of Norman horses line the channel. The storm, like the needle, has a round and guiding eye. WILLIAM’s fleet lands at England’s southern shore, short a co…
The Simple Hack That Makes Crispy, Chewy Scallion Pancakes Without ANY Gluten — These Gluten Free Scallion Pancakes are a marvel. Chewy, crispy, scallion-packed and absurdly fast to whip up in just 10 minutes—with one very key ingredient!
The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air | TechCrunch — The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.
the OED has a whole section for words that appear in exactly one book ever written. some of them are pretty good
I Showed a Pro Organizer My Chaotic Utensil Drawer, and Her Brilliant $3 Fix Changed Everything (It’s on Sale!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/edit/lifestyle/2025/2025-04/pro-organizer-utensil-drawer/pro-organizer-utensil-drawer-before-tag"> I…
A Rare Color Set the Price on This $4.6M Carrera GT — In January 2022, we noted the $1.9M sale result for a Guards Red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT with just 780 miles as the most expensive car ever sold on Bring a Trailer. At the time, Hagerty’s #1 (concours) pricing for…