'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.
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…
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” — Thick into the edits to my time-travel-rom-com novel set in the Regency era about two sisters who couldn’t be more different (one loves Jane Austen, one loves Skims), my gentle editor suggested I r…
Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2026 — Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s relationship to her deck. | Lit Hub Criticism How the expectation that “books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as…
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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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…
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…
Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip — I am on a personal campaign to give the travel sphere something no one asked for but definitely—and desperately—needs, an Indigenous perspective. Whether European newcomers know it or not, tribal p…
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…
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…
Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists — Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, transmits a deep understanding of the impulse to make art—to study, practice, commit to making art on a regular basis, to exhibit and sell your work (or your …
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our mixum gatherum of marvelous reviews this week includes Rachel Vorona Cote on Paul Yoon’s Etna, Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham’s Killing Spree, Daniel Felsenthal on Molly Crabapple’s Here Whe…
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…
“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness — “Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mom said, with a big silly grin. After only three months, my father was back in my life. And it was all because of the n-word.…
Thunder beat Pulse to win Super League Grand Final — Manchester Thunder beat defending champions London Pulse to win the 2026 Netball Super League Grand Final in front of a crowd of 8,000 in their home city.
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.
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.
How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged — “Split the Lark — and You’ll find the Music, ” Emily Dickinson taunted the materialists, “Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?” In the wake of On the Ori
Did You Know FDR Was Present For the Most Famous At-Bat in Baseball History? — Franklin Roosevelt and Anton Cermak had achieved a certain fusion in the public imagination four and a half months earlier, on October 1, 1932, when they sat together in a box at Wrigley Field, whe…
Giants beat Raiders as Featherstone see off Leigh — Huddersfield Giants beat Barrow Raiders while Featherstone Rovers see off Leigh Leopards in the Women's Super League.
The Odysseys, ranked. — It’s a story we just can’t seem to quit. From antiquity to outer space, literature and film are filled with scrappy adventurers struggling to get home. This week, Christopher Nolan cash…
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…
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…
2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization | Disney Research Studios
ByteDance and Hollywood Reach Agreement Over AI Video IP Rights — A memorandum of understanding has been signed.
In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy) — More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is: the point of reading and engaging with books is not so the reader can consume little bullet points …
Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia — The data centers have been speaking to me lately, in the form of ChatGPT slop. The spam offers to market my new novel for a fee, perverting the language I’ve written about a place the data centers …
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,…
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever — Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All — If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding…
How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection — “Books make me so mad.” That’s what my friend, who used to work part-time as a mover, told me when he learned that my husband and I found a new place to live and I had a lot of books that I needed …
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…
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 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 18, 2026 — Through layers of loss and sorrow, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the bleakest times, art, writing, and human connection are ra…
‘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.
Jellyfish mesmerise in their own museum in Florida — The Jellyfish Museum in Pompano Beach is believed to be the first in the US dedicated entirely to the floating predators.
Oil Gains as US and Iran Exchange Attacks — The US and Iran exchanged strikes as American forces hit Iranian rocket launchers and Iran responded by firing missiles toward Jordan. Bloomberg's Onur Ant has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful — Claire Atkin had just touched down on the tarmac in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, when her phone buzzed. On the screen flashed a series of texts from her neighbor: There was a man ou…
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…
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…
Book Corners — Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots.
Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing — “Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are]…
Why Chelsea need more than a new goalkeeper to be title challengers — Chelsea's new goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez made his debut in a thrilling 4-3 win over Brighton - but is unable to solve his new club's defensive problems on his own.
“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto — When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He …
Villa Coco — Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty. I took the Baronessa’s comment to mean I was to wear my best clothes; of course I had packed only one jacket and tie, and that only because I…
Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2026 — If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop…
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…
The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions — Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel that constrains what it contains by giving it its own shape. The more complex our experience,…
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’…
How dupes took over the world — The Verge’s Mia Sato explains the appeal and big business of dupes.
Here’s what’s making us happy this week. — Summer isn’t over—in fact, we rue the hater who throws in the beach towel before Labor Day. But there is a definite wind down spirit to late August. Afternoon storms gather steam on a dime, s…
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.
Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal? — On Monday, Hinge—yes, that Hinge—released a free audiobook comprised of five original short stories inspired by the dating sagas of real Hinge couples. The five pieces were written and narrated by …
Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea? — “I am an American, Chicago born,” begins Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first…
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.”
I Made You Up Inside My Head — Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where n…
Rohingya refugees rally in Bangladesh nine years after Myanmar exodus — Tens of thousands of Rohingya in Bangladesh protest, demanding safe return to Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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…