Awake Awake — All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts. And if our lives in this moment seem flimsy,…
Wonka Netflix show faces backlash for AI-generated Gene Wilder voice — The actor, who died in 2016, appears in the Netflix show with the consent of his estate.
Roknifard: US Unwilling or Incapable to Stop Israel — The US and Iran have reached an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, halting a conflict that has rattled the wider region. But Israel bombed Lebanon's capital Beirut in retaliation for drone incursions by Hezbolla
NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies — NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace
Home | History of Philosophy without any gaps — Podcast by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich and KCL London. Includes western, Islamic, Indian, and Africana philsosophy.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore — For years, fears about AI systems slipping human control were dismissed as speculative.
Rangers host Celtic in League Cup quarter-finals — Rangers will host Celtic in the Premier Sports Cup quarter-finals with Kilmarnock v Aberdeen the other all top-flight tie.
Is buying a OnePlus phone in 2026 still a good idea? — If you really want a OnePlus phone, you can still make it work.
Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming" | Causality-Oriented Architecture Notes — The following are two emails from Alan Kay to Stefan Ram in July 2003, clarifying what "object-oriented programming" originally meant to the person who coined the term.
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a ma…
How to Hold What Harrows You — We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffe…
Netanyahu’s veto and the limits of American power — Trump has the leverage to enforce his Gaza plan. Netanyahu is betting that he lacks the political will to use it.
The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs — In Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840 short story “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnamed narrator sits in a café and watches a busy street. He notes small details about the people passing by, and he categorizes th…
An “Intellectual Monster…” Why Muriel Spark Never Married — High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…
Is football AI-proof? Why tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup — What was the thinking of the investors backing the now-canned plan, and are such proposals in the future inevitable?
Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby — Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell travels to Philadelphia to talk with writer Angela Flournoy about a scene from Tar Baby. Speaking at the Free Library, they trace the novel’…
One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland — Rarely am I able to pinpoint precisely where a novel comes from. Patricia Highsmith once wrote, “ideas come to me like birds in the corner of my eye.” Until very recently this felt like an apt syno…
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…
Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life — “The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.”
Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism — Non-fiction writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Christian Barter to talk about the life of performer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died in 2023. Jelly-Schapiro, …
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Naima Coster (Take What You Can) Elizabeth Jannuzzi (Sober …
A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age — Where does the “literariness” in literary biography belong? With the book’s subject—or its author? Traditionally, it’s attached to both, and to a third element too. Literary biography a…
Ukrainian attack on Crimea kills five, Russian officials say — Attacks continue on the ground as Moscow expels Romania’s consul general in a tit-for-tat move.
Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Ed Park I am eternally dipping into the world of Charles Portis (especially The Dog of the South and True Grit), Nicholson…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Paul Yoon’s Etna, Dave Zirin’s The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, and Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur all feature among the best reviewed books of the w…
This library lets you read the exact first editions authors held in their hands — marginalia, coffee stains, everything!! 📚✨
A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print — At one point, I am certain it was grand. That’s not how I met the Castle Theater in the 1980s, its opulence long gone. You could pay four dollars and see as many movies as you wanted. There were tw…
Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength — “What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
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…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in August — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
Rachel Syme Loves a Good Yarn — 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…
“Copernicus Is Dying” — It seems impossible, but the lanky Petco cashier with the shiny blond pompadour insists that he’s telling the truth. “A shortage?” I ask. He nods. “All of them?” He nods again. I look at his name t…
Lit Hub Daily: July 30, 2026 — Roger Celestin on writing about not being able to go home when “exiles belong to a world of smaller numbers.” | Lit Hub Craft Why “biblical notions of the wilderness” taught…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age — Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each…
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks? — Who’s the better narrator for an audiobook: the author of the book or a professional voice actor? Trick question. The answer is both, and/or, it depends. Let’s leave nonfiction out of this discussi…
US bombs Iran for an 11th night; Hegseth says war has cost $37.5bn so far — Trump threatens to bomb a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain 'very heavily'.
How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye — Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal…
OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips — OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face, but the takeaways are more encouraging than people realize.
Famous Men — He doesn’t remember me, but I know who he is. The biographer and I met at a party Nathaniel took me to about a year after I arrived in New York, a literary fundraiser at one of those apartments whe…
Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert…
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time — “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship — It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the…
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…
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc — Even physical games ran into problems.
How to Live and How to Die — “Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world.”
I want extern "fil-c" — Compile legacy C with Fil-C, call it safely from Rust, and make runtime checks the tax for not migrating the hot path.
Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a Unicorn in the Practice of Translation — Soledad Acosta de Samper spoke English, traveled the world, wrote every day, and saved the newspaper clippings in which her novels appeared to turn them into albums. She married for love, had…
Best Google deal: Save $130 on Google Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5 — The bundle lets you preorder two of the latest Google devices for less.
AGL Jumps Most in Six Months on Strong Battery Performance — AGL Energy Ltd. shares jumped the most in six months as Australia’s largest power producer’s batteries helped offset declining wholesale electricity prices.
A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers — Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is full of stories about powerful men with fragile egos catapulting the…
NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration — NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace,…
Book Corners — Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots.
49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed — He still takes responsibility, saying ‘you don’t just turn it [driving] over to a computer.‘
Japan’s Bond Yields Climb on BOJ Hike Bets, Fiscal Concerns — Japan’s bonds fell on fiscal concerns and growing speculation that the Bank of Japan may raise interest rates in the coming months, pushing the 10-year yield to the highest since 1996.
On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York — Scenario 1 I land in Jakarta just in time for Chinese New Year. I can smell the cigarette smoke and rain before the plane even touches the tarmac; my body retrieves memories faster than my mind can…
James Dalton Trumbo Statue in Grand Junction, Colorado — <p><img alt="James Dalton Trumbo Bathtub Statue" data-width="3024" data-height="4032" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/Uq6CzoldLKtj9uwUGWVUuw1VEbep6NYFP1fnqNz27-E/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/…