Brighton rout Arsenal to end Premier League champions' 100% record — Premier League champions Arsenal lost their 100% record for the season in dramatic fashion as they were routed 3-0 at Brighton and Hove Albion.
An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise — Tim Curry, who died this week at 80, will probably always be best known for his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not unreasonably. With his snug corset and un…
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell — On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved fo…
What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags? — Here’s the thing about indie lit: it’s full of problems everyone complains about and almost nobody has the time, money, or spreadsheet stamina to solve. How can lit mags get more subscr…
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
Lenox’s Iconic Spice Village Just Got a Halloween Makeover (I Need a Set Right Now!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//commerce/product-reviews/tk/2024-09/lenox-spice-village-relaunch-preorder-2024/lenox-spice-village_ad32cf-cropped"> Imagine…
37 Father’s Day Dinner Ideas for Every Kind of Dad — Like party steak with scallion salsa and our best blueberry pie.
Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer. — Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up y…
The best MacBook deals this week: A refurbished MacBook Pro for $369.99 and MS Office 2021 for $89.97 — A refurbished laptop and the software to support it.
The Cypherpunk Library — A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
Tomatoes With Curry Yogurt — Best served chilled.
20 Ways of Surfacing from the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice to a 13-year-old Girl — Elizabeth Bishop’s memorial service opened with a reflection by her partner Alice — whose near-loss inspired one of the greatest…
Insta360 Fires Back at DJI With its Own Rocket Launch Video — It's kind of a space race.
3 Rules for Making the Absolute Best Tomato Toast — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2023-08-tomato-toast/tomato-toast-300"> It's the little things that make all the difference. <a…
Galaxy S26 review: Samsung’s still-compact flagship Android — Small top-tier Android is great to use, being fast, AI-loaded and with reasonable battery life, but falls short of rivals on camera
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…
Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2026 — Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit Hub Craft Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia in crisis: “While no protes…
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Bon Appétit: Recipes, Cooking, Entertaining, Restaurants — Cook with confidence. Enjoy your food. Find recipes, search our encyclopedia of cooking tips and ingredients, watch food videos, and more.
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form — “If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.”
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund — Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose ar…
40 Great New Books You May Have Missed — It feels like JD Vance has been everywhere in the last few weeks, and haven’t we suffered enough? As much as I’m enjoying the universal disdain he’s receiving from a diverse array of publications, …
I Haven’t Bought Ground Beef in Weeks — I’ve Been Making This Easy Japanese Steak Dinner Instead — It cooks in one pan.
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
Norway's King Harald dies aged 89 — The late king, who reigned for 35 years, broke with tradition by marrying a commoner and celebrated Norway's diversity in a famous speech.
Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are — “Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and…
Lit Hub Weekly: August 24 – 28, 2026 — “Jason was not just hounded out of academia, he was hounded out of existence.” Steven Thrasher on the killing Jason Arday. | Lit Hub Politics Long live Dolly Parton, American icon, giver of books.…
“when the army comes, the men disappear…” New Poetry by Fatimah Asghar — in indian-occupied kashmir, there are mass graves of an estimated 8,000-10,000 unidentified men & boys, dragged from their homes & never seen again. despite photos documenting their lives, …
Brewers clinch 4th NL Central title in row with win, Cubs loss — The Brewers won their fourth straight National League Central title after the second-place Cubs lost to Atlanta on Tuesday night.
I’ve Never Seen Prime Deals This Good — Here’s What We’re Buying from Caraway, KitchenAid, and More! — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//at/house%20tours%20stock%20archive/cb765438bb939192fd460dfca2a7cf86b4358715"> This is not a drill. <a…
Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave — I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt for …
A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction — As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a car, roll the wind…
Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…
iRobot's new $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo is its most powerful robot yet — iRobot has launched the $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo and the $899 Roomba Plus 678 Combo at IFA 2026.
How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness — “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
The Barman of the Ritz — Paris was occupied by German troops from June 14, 1940, to August 25, 1944: 1,533 nights. One thousand five hundred and thirty-three nights during which the Ritz was transformed from a luxury hotel…
Lit Hub Daily: September 4, 2026 — Suzanne Roberts offers advice (and prompts!) for writing about sex. | Lit Hub Craft How does time actually work? Jim Al-Khalili explores the flow of physics. | Lit Hub Science These Latin American …
Lit Hub Weekly: August 31 – September 4, 2026 — Marlon James tells Eric Olson about (finally!) writing a novel that draws from his life. | Lit Hub In Conversation “Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Some…
How Not to Dwell on the Past — “We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the l…
I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life — “I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my…
Benim Kıvılcımım Anlaşılmak İstememdi | Elif Afra Kılıç | TEDxKYAL Youth — Exploring how we can transform our moments of sadness and adversity into a “spark”of inspiration, Afra discusses the power of channeling negative experiences into art. She shares her personal journey of…
Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays cloak tower with thatched walls at Houghton Festival — <p>Design studios Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays have designed a timber-framed installation for this year's Houghton Festival in Norfolk, England, covering its walls with…
I Tell All My Friends to Join This Popular Snack Box Subscription — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/grocery-spotter-chips/grocery-spotter-chips-227"> No passport necessary! <a…
These are the 3 Android Auto apps I reach for when my car is parked — The apps I use off-road
The Responsible Party — By the time Irv and Kath met, the Oberbach Corporation was ankle-deep in concrete, middle-manning the cheap Chinese labor the city needed to build its demonic underground highway along the river. I…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper. — Kazuo Ishiguro, the feted Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, has announced his next novel. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger—a spy caper set in the 1930s—will be published…
This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 15, 1300, the poet Dante Alighieri was named one of the six priors that formed the Signoria of Florence, the city’…
(USD) Dollar Debasement Frees EM Currencies From Treasuries’ Weight — US Treasuries and emerging-market currencies are diverging the most in more than four years as higher US yields fail to fuel the dollar’s strength like they once did.
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. …
Giants' Harbaugh: Beckham has 'done enough' to make NFL roster — Odell Beckham Jr. had three catches for 53 yards in the Giants' preseason finale Friday, after which head coach John Harbaugh said he believes Beckham has "done enough to make an NFL roster."
“Authority” — It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since he took his love away. Josephine knows the world is crowded with people like her, that hers is a fundamentally ordinary predicament, but she feels …
Chancellor to unveil growth plan with £150m fund for northern firms — John Healey will detail plans to spread growth more widely across the UK, ahead of his first Budget.
The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page — For years, I believed people avoided letter writing because they lacked time. But after teaching leadership, communication, and storytelling to thousands of students, I’ve come to believe something…
Scammers Are Extorting Instagram Users With Bogus Copyright Strikes — They're taking advantage of Meta's glacial appeal process.
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human — “It’s permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful human.”
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. …
Wednesday Announce Bleeds Deluxe Featuring DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ, Avey Tare — The expanded edition drops this Friday
Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love — “Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
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