Norris 'happy I have the pain of this year for the glory of last' — Lando Norris tells BBC Sport he is "paying the price" for the effort that brought him the 2025 title - and why McLaren would be a "different vibe" for Max Verstappen.
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older — “In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
Sources: NBA eyes interaction between Jalen Brunson, fans in Game 1 — The NBA is investigating an interaction between Knicks star Jalen Brunson and courtside fans late in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, sources confirmed to ESPN.
Why Hull's US Open near-miss shows major win is close — BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter examines Charley Hull’s US Open performance after she came close to landing a first major title.
Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They've Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution — In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now landed on a better one. Why didn't human
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular — “Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
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How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
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…
Lorde Uploads 49 Demos From Virgin for Album’s Anniversary — The XRAYS page also features new photos, notes, and artwork ideas for her 2025 LP
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
The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders — “Now is the time for Helter Skelter,” Charles Manson is said to have said, and then the family went out and committed two nights of violence that meant to “shock the world” and “instill fear into t…
Lit Hub Daily: June 1, 2026 — “It felt as if Eileen had found a box of pencils they wrote with in the 1970s and asked if I would like to take a look at them.” CAConrad on Eileen Myles’ “Bird Watching.” | Lit Hub Criticism From …
How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love — This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by a Brooklyn friend, at the poet’s own expense — W…
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Record Bond Inflows Ease India Equity Exodus — Global funds invested $5.2 billion in index-eligible bonds this month.
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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…
Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This? — At his recent meeting with the US President Donald Trump, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked: “Can China and the United States transcend the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and for
Russian strikes kill nine in Ukraine and damage historic cathedral, officials say — A Ukrainian drone attack in the Russian city of Tula, south of Moscow, killed three people and wounded three others.
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…
The World’s Tallest Messi Statue Is Also Its Most Salacious — Featuring a crotch-level and rather phallic World Cup trophy, the Patagonian artist Aldo Beroisa’s 85-foot-tall sculpture immediately caused a stir online.
Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about — New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music — “Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models | TechCrunch — OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work — “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.”
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Kevin Young has won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize. — Last night, at an event in Toronto, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published in English—announced its 2026 winner: Kevin Young’s …
Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices — RAMageddon comes for Apple.
The Three Elements of the Good Life — To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and somet…
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…
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go — “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leav…
Endless Shrimp Deal Was Scheme to Squeeze Red Lobster, Suit Says — Red Lobster’s $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal wasn’t just a badly designed promotion that inadvertently helped tip the iconic American restaurant chain into bankruptcy.
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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
How Do You Write a “Mighty Book” in 2026? — “To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville writes in Moby-Dick. In the US, one of the mightiest for the past generation has been the shift from a society dominated b…
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