On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery — Birth fractured my sense of time—of how time unfolded. I had previously taken for granted that time passed swiftly from one moment to the next. I organized my understanding of my own life according…
“Go Get ’Em” — Illustrated by Yana Mihaylova My boyfriend’s family is supposed to visit and we have to prepare and try to match their lavish dinners and four-course crystal-and-china extravaganzas. They are going…
someone made a searchable database of every podcast episode transcript from the last 5 years. you can actually find that one clip you half-remember hearing.
Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives — I’ve read that the American crow will gather around their dead, seemingly performing a kind of funeral rites, looking at the fallen crow and calling out to it in improvised sequence as though enact…
The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
Sydney Home Auction Activity Weakens as Costs, Tax Changes Weigh — Sydney posted its weakest weekend home auction clearance rate in more than six years as higher interest rates and property tax changes dampen activity and weigh on prices, after years of rapid gains.
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep — Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the…
Maximum Fun | A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported – directly – by you! — Maximum Fun is your home on the internet for things that are awesome, with a network of podcasts to entertain and inform you.
Oil Holds Drop After Erasing Most Wartime Gains as Supply Swells — Oil was steady following a run of losses that’s erased most of the wartime price gains, with fears of a supply crunch subsiding as more ships transit the Strait of Hormuz after early progress on a peace deal.
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, …
Third RCs for macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 and macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 now available - 9to5Mac — In addition to several betas released today, Apple is also rolling out new release candidates for macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 and macOS Sequoia 15.7.8.
Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars? — Inks created with a patient’s own cells may one day help the body regrow tissues
This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-year-old Carson McCulle
The Lot Radio — Live independent radio from Brooklyn.
A restaurant chef explained why their scrambled eggs taste different — they season the butter before the eggs hit the pan, not after. Huh
“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
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem — This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confi
Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026 — What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe,…
Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award. — Last night, in a ceremony, the New York Public Library announced the winner of its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by writers 35 and younger. This year’s winner is Carrie …
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
Hidden Brain Podcast — Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. Our work, led by Host and Executive Editor Shankar Vedantam, is marked by a commitment to scientific and journali
Girls’ Girl — By Friday, I was back at Margaret’s house with an itchiness between us. I found her to be too pleased with herself. She flitted around her room with authority and half an eye on her phone at all ti…
Authorama - Public Domain Books — Public domain books to read online.
Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more: 20 new books out today! — It was an undeniably awesome weekend. Speaking from a New York angle, it simply couldn’t get better: warm evenings, Pride events galore, and last but not least, the Knicks won. We keep up the…
The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite — A blog mostly about Clojure programming
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life — We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…
Meganom clads Manhattan skyscraper with thousands of custom aluminium "bricks" — <p>Russian architecture studio Meganom has created a facade system comprising more than 200,000 laser-cut aluminium elements for its in-progress 262 Fifth Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan. The facade…
Lex Fridman Podcast - Lex Fridman — Long conversations on big topics.
Agnes Lives! — SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 6:30 a.m. I’m covered in sweat, rolling it out with very little resistance on the knob. Flushing that lactic acid. Shoulders lowered, triceps and biceps spiraling. Toward me, the…
Melissa Albert Recommends Six Books Centered Around Art That Doesn’t Actually Exist — Years ago I worked as an editor at an art museum, where part of the job was proofreading stacks of gallery labels, divorced from the art they were describing. I developed an odd appetite for the
Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles — Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the…
Why this convertible remains the best budget sports car in 2026 — In a world of increasingly expensive performance cars, this convertible keeps things simple and affordable.
England will miss Stokes' winning persona - Vaughan — Former England captain Michael Vaughan reflects on Ben Stokes' shock retirement and how the team can move on from one of their "greatest" players.
Cavaliers outlast Pistons in OT, score 1st road playoff win — The Cavaliers come back from a nine-point deficit late in regulation and beat the Pistons 117-113 in overtime Wednesday night to take a 3-2 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
Onley ruled out of Tour de France with injury — Oscar Onley has been ruled out of next month's Tour de France with a shoulder injury, his team Netcompany-Ineos have confirmed.
mom friend just told me she lets her kids pick one "bad" thing to do daily so they stop sneaking everything. now her 7yo openly eats cereal for dinner twice a week and somehow this fixed the lying 💀
The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History — The first episode of the first season of the genre-redefining streaming series Chef’s Table on Netflix begins, as one might expect, in Italy. Massimo Bottura, the omnipresent, award-winning, and mu…
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. …
What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title — For me, coming up with titles is always a team effort. Titling my first book, a quirky history of people who look for the Garden of Eden on Earth, had me stumped, until my friend the writer Josh Ga…
there's a podcast where two people just read old internet forum posts from 2003 and neither of them understand the references — makes me feel less alone about not getting why anyone cared about that stuff
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026 — In the world of children’s literature, there’s been some recent debate about whether children’s books are mostly any good. This, dear reader, is a question that I feel particularly qualified to ans…
Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday — Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg dancing like a
Chess engine just played a move that takes 40 moves to win. Even Kasparov's notes call it impossible until you see the pawn structure unfold.
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
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…
On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union — On the evening of August 18, 1991, my friend Terry and I were staying at the Pribaltiyskaya Intourist hotel, a huge Soviet hotel complex built in an ugly brutalist style on a windswept island close…
Lucy Sante on An Anthology of New York Poets — 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. The new…
Cherished Buick Has Spent 113 Years with the Same Family — “We guarantee that all Model 25 Buick Touring Car Motors will develop more power and speed than any stock Foreign or American Motors of equal size. Buick Power and Speed are the inevitable result of correct design,
this guy turned his marginalia from 20 years of reading into a searchable database, so you can see what random thoughts people scribbled in the margins of their favorite books 📚✨
Earwolf Podcast Network — Earwolf is a comedy podcast network with shows like Comedy Bang! Bang!, Office Ladies, How Did This Get Made?, and more.
Sounds of the Cotswolds — Field recordings from everywhere.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now — “Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, later, “I pry this int…
Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story — I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy…
The Literature Network — Classic texts and study guides.
TechCrunch Mobility: Lime's IPO gamble | TechCrunch — Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings? — Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name — “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”
Lit Hub Daily: May 27, 2026 — Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft Tho…
How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family — “You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
there's this podcast where people call in and someone just... identifies what song is stuck in their head by humming three notes. it's weirdly satisfying.