Under China's new 'unity' law, Tibetans fight to preserve language and culture — A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet.
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in July 2026 — I’ve got a quick challenge for you, children’s book fans: Close your eyes, clear your mind, and visualize an illustration from a picture book you loved as a child. (Then open your eyes again, pleas…
Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own? — More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street …
What is the Future of Ethnic Studies? — When we come upon a fork in the road—two roads diverging in a yellow wood—it might be said that the decision of which way to go is a matter of impulse, rather than intention. At least, that is what…
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…
Rapper Yung Filly tells trial 'vibes were good' with woman who accuses him of rape — The rapper takes the witness stand at his trial in Australia where he denies raping a fan in a hotel room.
NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Science Missions — NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions.
Vinicius nets twice and Neymar returns as Brazil ease by Scotland — Brazil beat Scotland as Vinicius =scores first two goals and Neymar returns, to seal top spot in their World Cup group.
US Companies Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected in July: ADP — US private payrolls rose 44,000 in July after a revised 95,000 increase in the prior month as companies added fewer jobs than expected, according to ADP Research data out Wednesday. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg…
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story — 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…
“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…
“Hemlock, 1956,” a Poem by Victoria Chang — A wooden door in front of everything. A door on my country. A door in the lake. My poems prefer wooden hunting dogs. If I say there is a door on my heart in the poem, then there is. Now I can open …
James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe — “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each o
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: 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,…
See David Hockney’s odd and lovely illustrations for his favorite Brothers Grimm fairy tales. — The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness. He also, li
Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child — “The reader,” says National Book Award-winner Sigrid Nunez, “will forgive the novelist certain things. Like, in a 400-page book, you can have a dozen flat sentences. But in a [short] story? No. You…
This Week in Literary History: The Catcher in the Rye is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he h…
GitHub - alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books — A curated list of best cuda programming books. Contribute to alternbits/awesome-cuda-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
August 10, 2026 – Apple Watch rumors, more — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
Lit Hub Weekly: July 13 – 17, 2026 — On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone novel in the early 2000s (and the its attendant moral panic). | Lit Hub Technology Josh Cook, bookseller and founder of the Porter Square Review of…
Lauren Acompora 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections — From birth, we’re surrounded by animals. We cling to stuffed animal friends, wear clothing adorned with bunnies and bears, and listen to stories of anthropomorphized creatures. The first books we e…
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…
7 best streaming original movies of 2026 (so far) — As good as any big-budget theatrical release.
Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — In just a few weeks, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year on June 21. To get you ready, here’s this month’s excellent SFF offerings. An actress joins a Time Travel Agency that’s al
How Not to Dwell on the Past — “We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the l…
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…
Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions — “We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.”
Should DayQuil be legal? — The combo drug grift is dangerous
Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature. — Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its second annual DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Amer…
A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service’s The Cremation of Sam McGee is a lyrical poem lodged deeply in the folds of my brain—but, naively, unconsciously, I figured my brother was the only other living soul who could say t…
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…
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. …
Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps? — Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson — In her acceptance speech upon receiving the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us (1951), biologist and author Rachel Carson (1907–1964) explained: “If there is poetry in my book about the sea,…
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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…
Ravens WR Zay Flowers day-to-day after quad contusion — Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers suffered a left quad contusion during training camp practice, avoiding a more concerning injury but still one that could sideline him briefly.
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Merci, Marjane: What the <em<Persepolis Author Meant to Me as an Iranian in Exile — I’m in my car, in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in South Pasadena. On the phone, my friend Monika is telling me about a lost dog in her Salt Lake City neighborhood, a blue heeler who’…
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife — Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration cou
Ecclestone breaks record - in front of those who paved the way — Sophie Ecclestone is a fitting player to take the headlines after a momentous opening day at Lord's, where past England players were honoured for paving the way.
How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable? — It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over the course of that story. But what to do if you have a ch…
A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck — According to Smithsonian Magazine, Sylvia Plath used the Tarot de Marseille deck, which her husband, Ted Hughes, gifted her on her 24th birthday in 1956. It is believed that she also used the Rider…
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty — “In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…
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…
Could Infantino lose FIFA presidency after World Cup plans were rejected? — Despite making FIFA unimaginable fortunes, Gianni Infantino is wearing out his welcome. His scrapped plans to privatize the World Cup might be the last straw.
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Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2026 — Xiao Hai remembers balancing brutal night shifts on the production floor with writing poetry. | Lit Hub Memoir “We can be demure and brat, sense and sensibility, sometimes in quick succession or al…
Two riders die in separate British eventing competitions — Two riders have died after separate incidents in competitions on Saturday, British Eventing confirms.
G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life — Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
7 things my jailbroken Kindle can do better than an Android tablet or iPad — Sometimes a Kindle is all you need.
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. — Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this year’s “Booker Dozen”: a longlist of 13 books nominated for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize, which this year celebrates l…
Notorious Feral Cat That Feasted on Rare New Zealand Ducks Captured After Three-Year Hunt — The gray tabby, known as Nine Lives because it eluded capture so many times, had devastated efforts by conservationists to reintroduce the birds to the wild
Why “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” Makes It Harder to Save the Planet — When she was growing up, Mia Monroe remembers, monarch butterflies were a natural part of the rhythm of life. This was in the 1960s, and Mia and her family lived in San Carlos, California, at that …
2 workers share how helping kids at a community center has changed their lives — Workers at a Louisiana community center talk about how helping children has enriched their lives.
A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
iOS 27 Finally Unlinks Alarm Volume From Your iPhone Ringer — For the better part of two decades, an iPhone's alarm volume has matched its ringer. In other words, if you slide the ringtone volume down to silence your iPhone overnight, you're also turning your alarm's volume…
Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth — When I translated Walden in 2012, I was not a Thoreau scholar. I was an immigrant chasing the American dream: two kids, two cars, two houses, a long commute to a corporate job. Translating Walden b…