Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children — Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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. | …
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Becca Rothfeld on Rachel Cusk’s Life of M, Emmet Fraizer on Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, Charlotte Wood on Dorthe Nors’s Range, Walton Muyumb…
What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Tryptiches Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview — While Giotto sought to communicate the Christian messages that he had been commissioned to depict by encouraging his viewers to empathize with the characters in his realistic scenes, Hieronymus…
Recommended Reading: 'Universal People, Universal Dreams' Is A Timely, Heartfelt Telling Of One Man's Collecting Journey Into The Rarest Of The Rare — The book weaves a personal narrative of friendship, challenges, and focus that brought together arguably the rarest collection…
Summer Notes | Cup of Jo — By the lovely Grace Farris.
Lit Hub Daily: July 8, 2026 — How Jane Austen subverted the kind of romance she mastered by writing Emma. | Lit Hub Criticism Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways women writers arrange the balance between creativity…
CSS Reference — CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden — Kurt Vonnegut describes the train arriving in Dresden at five o’clock that afternoon: “The boxcar doors were opened, and the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever s…
The Secret Power of Ambivalence — The most maddening thing about life is also the most beautiful: its indeterminacy. The course of our lives, the fate of our species, the future of the universe: all undecided. But because possibili…
The Business of Watches Podcast: Formex CEO And Head Of Product Development At Dexel Raphael Granito — We sit down with Mr. Granito to talk about Formex, Dexel, and how he views the industry.
Why CPU overclocking is mostly now a thing of the past — The performance gains you get with modern chips aren't as noteworthy as they used to be.
Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Christi…
This Dutch Painting Showed a 17th-Century Drinking Game Until Someone Smudged Out a Player, Spoiling the Fun. A Museum Just Restored the Imbibing Soldier — Pieter de Hooch was known for his 17th-century portrayals of domestic life. Some scenes suggested scandal or taught a moral
We Are All Fools | Saanvi Shukla | TEDxCityUHK — What if the very qualities that drive us to greatness are the same ones that lead to our downfall? In this witty, personal, and deeply relatable talk, a student from HKUST confesses that she is a fool, and that you probably are,…
James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You — Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar system, as if it got lost like the Little Red…
How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath — On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, my best friend Dani, also a writer, wrote to tell me that Robin Morgan, the landmark American feminist activist, organizer, and writer, had died. In th…
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older — A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment…
Apple Unveils Immersive Horror Film Coming Exclusively to Vision Pro — Apple on Monday announced Remnants, an immersive horror film that will be released exclusively on the Vision Pro on Friday, October 16. The film will be in the Apple Immersive Video format, meaning it will…
Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat — I’m not really interested in wrestling with what defines a classic. It’s the kind of question that fills up think pieces and podcasts with bouts of teeth gnashing and…
Record Store Day Reveals Black Friday 2026 Exclusives — The semiannual event known as Record Store Day will once again bring a raft of exclusive releases to independent record stores this Black Friday. Going down Nov. 27, this RSD Black Friday slate will include the usual…
Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger — In chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing, Berger, borrowing from the ideas of Walter Benjamin, argues that our ability to reproduce art on a mass scale has fundamentally altered how we encounter it in the world.
There's This Podcast Where The Host Just Reads Obscure Wikipedia Articles Out Loud... And Somehow It's The Most Soothing Thing I've Found
Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline — “So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.”
10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August — From the hard, hard courts of professional tennis to the mean screens of social media to the life and times of an iconic indie rock songwriter, this month has something for everyone. * Matthew Futt…
Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss — “Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the No…
David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists — “It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations”
Bill McKibben Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth — It is quite rare to find someone who is a first-class academic and analyst, and is also able to become a first-class activist, but Leah Stokes is a triple threat. A political scientist at UC Santa …
Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today! — It’s July, and it’s time to be absolutely inundated with summer novels. This week, we’re treated to the new book by North Woods author Daniel Mason, Country People, the hotly anti…
Harvard Football Beats Colgate with Miraculous Hail Mary Lateral — Harvard Football Head Coach Andrew Aurich discusses the team's Hail Mary victory over Colgate on Saturday night. (Source: Bloomberg)
Cristiano Ronaldo provisionally suspended by Portugal after national team walkout, Jorge Jesus dispute — Cristiano Ronaldo has been provisionally suspended by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) following his decision to walk out of the national team camp after a dispute…
Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest — The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair. What we make of our hopes and their devastation may be the purest measure of who we are and what we leave behind. Protest is what we…
The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written — You wouldn’t have bet on it, the frail famous poet teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor and the athletic secretary of the campus residence half her age. But…
The 11 Best Book Covers of August — Another month of books, another month of book covers. The books of August were as lush as you might expect, though not always in the usual ways. Here are a few of my favorites from the end of summe…
N Korea’s Ri breaks three weightlifting records, India’s Chanu bags silver — Chanu finally clinches an elusive Asian Games medal in Japan and Ri Song-gum wins North Korea’s first gold.
An insurance policy with no guarantee - the complex issue of egg-freezing in sport — BBC Sport examines the potential benefits, risks and unanswered questions facing female athletes about egg-freezing.
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” — “To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Revisiting Vikram Chandra’s Ode to the Art of Human Coding in the Age of AI — Twelve years ago, Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’t long at all; in terms of technology, it’s an eternity. …
Your diagnosis is not your destiny | Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles | TEDxTAFE Queensland — After receiving a life-threatening autoimmune diagnosis, Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles discovered the importance of becoming an informed, active participant in her own healthcare. Drawing on her…
AirPods Pro 3 vs AirPods 5: Three reasons to go Pro - 9to5Mac — Apple debuted AirPods 5 in September. Here's how to decide between AirPods 5 vs AirPods Pro 3, including all the new features.
Generosity and Personhood: How the Myth of the Three Graces Inspired My Debut Novel — When I walked toward the Roman statue of the Three Graces in The Metropolitan Museum of Art last month, my eyes began to water. I clocked the familiar details in person for the first time: The…
Giants vs. Commanders livestream: How to watch NFL for free — Can the Commanders turn the season around?
Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes — With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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.
Studio Egret West revises Battersea Power Station masterplan for final phases — <p>Architecture practice Studio Egret West has submitted a "more-permeable" masterplan for the final phases of the Battersea Power Station development in London. Designed for the development's…
Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death — “The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.”
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness — “Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2026 — Hernan Diaz explains why his new novel isn’t a dystopia: “Similar to Diaz’s debut In the Distance, his new work can feel like social theory masquerading as old school adventure. This is…
The Business of Watches Podcast: A Market Roundup Of Geneva Watch Days Releases With Tim Jeffreys And TanTan Wang — Tim, TanTan, and Andy talk about new releases from GWD and where they might fit in the competitive watch market.
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success — “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance… To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what…
Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work — “True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.”
On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla — Ferréol Bellier-Beaumont recounts the 1841 eureka moment—when a vanilla plant was first manually pollinated—as follows: One day as I walked with my faithful companion, I noticed that my only vanill…
Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert — When you’re young, or not so young, and strongly drawn to a genre of music, a certain composer, a particular piece, it’s often hard to explain why, even to yourself. This may be especially true of …
Isaac Chotiner on Deep Knowledge and Gotcha Interviews — Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being — “One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”
The Unexpected Joys of a Geriatric Debut — If I were 26 years old, full of piss and vinegar and had a debut poetry collection, I’d fancy myself a modern-day troubadour. I’d live out of my car, which would likely be a beat-up Volvo station w…
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors — “Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
Mike Breen apologizes after LeBron James refutes Embiid story — Broadcaster Mike Breen apologized Wednesday for the reaction to a story he shared about LeBron James calling out Joel Embiid for showing up late, a story James has since disputed.
Rams player suspended for punch & kicker cut by club — The fallout from the Los Angeles Rams' defeat by the Buffalo Bills continues as offensive lineman Alaric Jackson is suspended for punching an opponent while kicker Harrison Mevis is released.
How bird vomit is helping us understand Australian ecosystems | Vikram Vakil | TEDxUQ — Dr Vikram, specialising in Australia’s dinosaurs, extinct marine reptiles and small‑bodied mammals, brings a rich blend of research, publications and eight years of teaching experience to…