15 of the Weirdest Products on Amazon! — FAN MAIL: CRAZY RUSSIAN HACKER P.O. Box 49 Waynesville, NC 28786
Lit Hub Daily: May 22, 2026 — Everyone is an AI cop now, even if they don’t know it: a past Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner weighs in on the recent scandal. | Lit Hub Criticism Does Xi Jinping really think China is Athens…
The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz — I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction." My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary,…
On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation — A decade and change ago, Paul Elie taught a class that I found formative. Its focus was first books, and he talked about each assignment in revelatory terms, prodding us graduate stu
fadedpage.com — Fadedpage free eBooks forever
Bookshare — Accessible ebooks for all.
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.”
Lit Hub Daily: May 27, 2026 — Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft Tho…
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning | Mathematical Association of America
What Queer Archives Know (Before They Can Prove It) — The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom. A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and standing upright. It prefers testimony to atmosphere, co…
“Vulnerability as a Valid Way.” 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June — I’m thrilled to be joining Rebecca Morgan Frank as co-poetry columnist—I’ll be here every other month with seven new poetry collections. “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke is perhaps …
Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026 — What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but it could also be called democracy.…
Europa League champions Aston Villa get Birmingham victory parade — Roads will be closed in Birmingham city centre on Thursday as the city celebrates Villa's victory.
Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing — ...also don't tell lies. But I'm getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for t
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…
What Do Arthurian Legend and All My Children Have in Common? — Down the street, my coffee shop’s windows glowed with the baleful warmth of an Edward Hopper painting. This was where I liked the write—a third place, before dawn, when the city was quiet and my th…
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life — “It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
Seven modern novels that would make excellent musicals. — Okay, hear me out. Some of us in lit-world also celebrated the Tonys this weekend, where Ragtime took the statue for Best Revival. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s epic novel, Ragtime joins a lon…
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. …
Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again — <p>On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at <a href="https://weibo.com/">Sina Weibo</a> — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial…
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’ — A new way to find people with common interests.
Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more - 9to5Mac — Apple has raised prices across the board for many of its products today. MacBook Neo now starts at $699 (up...
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026 — Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own e…
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought — In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist n
New Gmail accounts might only get 5GB of storage, but there’s a way around it — If you already have an account, don't worry about this.
A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield — Oh, to live in a room filled with the objects described by Katherine Mansfield. To arrange her combs, playing cards, and enamel boxes, to try on “the most amusing orange coat with a procession of b…
Bookforum — The online edition of Bookforum Magazine.
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder — Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
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
Xreal officially reveals its Android XR Aura glasses — without a pricetag — The company is taking paid reservations for a launch later this year.
A Poet on the Factory Floor: On Daily Life in China’s Industrial Centers — on the pristine production floor the air you breathed was just another product sitting at workstations wearing antistatic rings you let out the stench of rust let in the summer breeze and revived, …
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor — At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while working as a…
Pac-Man, but you're the ghost | Garrit's Notes
An Angel Watching Over Me: On Exile, Estrangement and Placelessness in Paris — 1. The International Refugee Organization (IRO) put the three women up in Paris. My eighteen-year-old mother, Ursula; her sister, Traute; and my grandmother, Gertrud. It was supposed to be a one-ni…
Russia Hikes June Subsidies to Refiners as Fuel Shortages Bite — Russia’s subsidy payouts to oil refiners that supply domestic markets jumped more than six-fold in June from a year earlier, as Moscow sought to avoid shortages by keeping more fuel at home.
How Wolverine: Weapon X Reinvented the Classic Marvel Tale — Barry Windsor-Smith was one of the most popular creators at Marvel Comics. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics did not look like or read like other comic books. It is important …
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…
Agnes Lives! — SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 6:30 a.m. I’m covered in sweat, rolling it out with very little resistance on the knob. Flushing that lactic acid. Shoulders lowered, triceps and biceps spiraling. Toward me, the…
How We All Become Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map — As Taiwanese manufacturers rushed to fabricate GPS chips in the early and mid-2000s and sat-nav companies rushed to install them in their receivers, Frank van Diggelen and his colleagues at Global …
Little Wonder — One Tuesday morning, as Song unlocked the door, River raced past her and shouted, “What is that?” “It’s called a piano,” she said, examining the latest acquisition of Apartment 14A. “It makes music…
Could Iran and the US play each other at the World Cup? — Could Iran and the US play each other at the World Cup?
Lit Hub Weekly: June 8 – 12, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge is underway with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time! | Lit Hub Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wel…
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026 — In the world of children’s literature, there’s been some recent debate about whether children’s books are mostly any good. This, dear reader, is a question that I feel particularly qualified to ans…
Best Prime Day Nintendo Switch deals: We're loving this Switch 2 bundle — Pick up a brand-new game for less and stock up on accessories.
True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again — Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the…
China cracks down on rule-bending offshore investments — It wants mainland investors to bet on its own tech dreams not America’s
Homepage - Public Books — Think in public.
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…
May’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say, Douglas Stuart’s John of John, and Ali Smith’s Glyph all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit H…
Tasha - "Quick!" — We’ve already heard a smattering of music from Tasha’s new album You Are The Spring! But her new song out this week has me locked in with a new attentiveness. “Quick!” is a staggering achievement. The song spends three and a half minutes building up intensity i
Marilyn Monroe Was a Voracious Reader, Despite Her Near-Debilitating Imposter Syndrome — If someone tells you that you are stupid and dumb enough times, chances are you will start to believe it. If you are someone with no stable and loving family to fall back on, or no partner wh
On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate — Mom said the folks who’d be at the family reunion were Randy’s people, so I’d probably never met them but that was no reason not to try to talk. It’s true I often stayed quiet. If I raised my voice…