Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch — Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and…
How Not to Waste Your Life — “Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the p…
From palava huts to TikTok: How Liberians are preserving their past — From podcasts to TikTok, young Liberians are using digital platforms to keep history alive and challenge old narratives.
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…
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“Boardinghouse With No Visible Address,” a Poem by Franz Wright — So, I thought, as the door was unlocked and the landlord disappeared (no, he actually disappeared) and I got to examine the room unobserved. There it stood in its gray corner— the narrow bed, the s…
Every literary(ish) person who attended Taylor Swift’s wedding. — Usually when I hear about a party thrown by the most famous person in the world, I don’t immediately assume that someone like me should be there. What does make me think that delusional thought is …
Russell 'numb to disappointment' after bitter blow to title hopes — George Russell crashing out at Spa and falling 50 points behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli is a bitter blow to the Briton, writes Andrew Benson.
Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations — “In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celeb
Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics — Joan is eighty-five years old, and I fell a little in love with her on Thanksgiving. She was sitting on our couch reading a copy of The Aeneid that she had plucked from the…
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How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust — “The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural…
Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026 — How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticis…
What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read — After finishing an early draft of my novel New Skin, I realized that I had been writing all along for someone specific to read the book and finally understand what I felt. I don’t mean that I consi…
‘Football belongs to no individual’: UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF slam Infantino — Three confederations release letter criticising FIFA's president over his proposal to sell off stakes in the World Cup.
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One Wing Won't Fly | Gurmukh Singh Bawa | TEDxDWPS Ludhiana Youth — Drawing on four decades of experience in aviation and public affairs, Gurmukh Singh Bawa explores why even the most brilliant systems, technologies, and strategies often fail when human connection is…
Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical Environmentalism — Journalist Matthew Wolfe joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage…
Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application — Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children — Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield — Perhaps every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield. Discerning movie critic, reader, author of detective stories, skater and mean dancer, she is a very accomplished ten-y…
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers for Low-Latency App Servers — Transitioning SQLite from a local development tool to a production-grade database requires a deep understanding of its internal mechanics. This article explores how to tune WAL…
Voices That Connect | Diya and Jiya | TEDxNHCE — There's a particular kind of harmony that only twins seem able to produce not just musically, but in the way they move and breathe together on stage. Diya and Jiya have that in spades. Their journey through Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l…
The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up — It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of th…
Investors Track Tokens for Clues on AI Trade’s Next Move — Investors are tracking AI token prices as they try to figure out where the volatile trade goes next.
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…
Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex — Sex is an integral part of a person’s life, but when it appears in fiction it can sometimes feel hesitant or awkward on the one hand, or risky or provocative, deployed as a demand for attention, on…
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Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers — I’m standing in a rocky clearing by an observatory 9600 feet above sea level. My chest feels tight as my heart pumps against the elevation, though some of this sensation may simply be awe. I’m surr…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Niela Orr on Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Lily Meyer on Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End, Jonathan Derbyshire on Emily Eakin’s The French…
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David Sedaris, Matt Haig, Missouri Williams, and more: 20 new books out today! — The tail end of a long weekend brings us a new slew of reads: a collection of David Sedaris essays, Jorie Graham poems, as well as a fresh novel from bestseller Matt Haig all promise to deliver. Th…
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means — “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer — For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some vision. I read more slowly, so every word had to be …
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July — 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…
'Top universities cut entry grades' and 'Uefa set for Infantino inquiry' — The Sunday Times reports that top institutions are becoming "more flexible" following a 10% drop in international students.
Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August. — August, amazingly, approaches, the final month in a summer that has at once felt slow and like it has slipped by with the curious swiftness of a half-remembered dream. Still, the summer is not over…
De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison — “I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising…
Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in July — From the world’s wildest places to the origins of American fascism to memoirs of grief and recovery, July’s nonfiction has something for everyone. * The Savage Landscape, Cal Flyn Flyn’s 2021 book,…
FIFA World Cup schedule July 19: Games, kickoff times, livestream — It's final time.
Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, Leila Slimani, and more: 23 new books out today! — More heavy-hitters descending on our bookstores this morning: Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto, and Leila Slimani’s I’ll Take the Fire are only to …
How Leprosy Was Used as a Weapon Against Hawaii’s Indigenous Population — Father Damien was a dirty man. Everyone agreed on that. Dirt would accumulate under his fingernails; he rarely washed his hands. His clothes—his habitual cassock and wide-brimmed hat—were worn for …
Maggie Haberman, Eve Babitz, Daniel Kraus, and more: 21 new books out today! — The most perfect day in June, as in: my birthday! Happy June 23rd to all, and especially the authors and readers of the below collection of new titles. There’s a comprehensive, insiders’ acco…
Labor of Love: On Editing and the Rewards of Collaborative Effort — From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Michael Cunningham’s Unsayable, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Yellow Pine all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s…
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…
Build Wide, Ship Narrow | Blog — Splitting a finished branch into small PRs used to be the expensive part, so we decided the boundaries before the code existed. That cost collapsed. Now the code can tell you where to cut it.
Sheila Heti on Talking to Everyone at Once — 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…
Sydney Towle, who documented her cancer journey for 1.1 million TikTok followers, dies at 26 — The creator invited millions into her life with remarkable honesty, documenting not just cancer but everything that made her who she was.
I Want You to Be Happy — He had promised himself he wouldn’t talk about it and now here he was, talking about it. Not just talking about it, but shouting specific details directly in her ear. Certain things, obviously, he …
Homeland Security Secretary Mullin reiterates Trump threats about elections — Mullin pledged to make Trump's election security demands 'mandatory' and implement a 'maximum pressure' campaign.
FIFA’s Infantino backed in Colombia where he attends president inauguration — FIFA president Gianni Infantino gets South American football's backing while at Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration.
How to Put an End to Problem of American Gerontocracy (in the Nicest Possible Way) — A dynamic and innovative society, focused most on launching people into the prime of their lives, depends on taking good care of those aging out of it—if only to keep the threat of gerontocracy…
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
The Children of Blood and Bone trailer is here. (But you might want to buy the book instead.) — This morning, Paramount released the first trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, their buzzy adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack…
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Lit Hub Daily: August 6, 2026 — Why later in life is maybe the perfect time to read ancient classics (and why it’s never too late to love art for art’s sake). | Lit Hub Criticism Finding unexpected inspiration while w…
How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created — The most dramatic moment in Jane Austen’s Emma, and, arguably, in her whole body of work, has nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’…
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…