The Mom Test should be required reading before any user-research conversation. https://www.momtestbook.com
Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure — Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not th…
Marine Le Pen found guilty, but court clears way for presidential run if she wears tag — The National Rally leader now has to decide whether she will run with an electronic tag and will speak on TV later.
Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page — To examine the increasing similarities between television storytelling and literary fiction—particularly their shared emphasis on complex characters and challenging themes—I recently spoke with…
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…
Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize. — At presses small and large, it’s another great week for the labor movement in publishing. As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won their union elect…
Found a used copy of a book where someone had written corrections in the margins — in different handwriting — arguing with the original annotator across 200 pages. It's like watching two people's conversation unfold.
The glossy, golden frosting you probably haven't made yet — With a smooth, custardy texture, French buttercream is elevated but still approachable. Here’s why it demands your attention.
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…
Patrick Collison's reading list is half a CS degree disguised as recommendations. https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times — Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover the light: Learn something. Help someone. Feel it all. We need …
Global Grey Ebooks: beautifully formatted free ebooks in a variety of genres — Find and download free ebooks exploring spirituality, religion, folklore, and the mystical, as well as history, fiction, philosophy, and more. Available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats.
For the flakiest biscuits (and more!), grate your butter — The tips that pastry chefs and cookbook authors swear by: Grating your butter with a box grater.
On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp — The boy is about five or six years old. He sits with his back against a giant red water tank, one hand on the spigot, the other on the post of the rusted metal platform that holds the tank up off t…
Best Fire Stick deal: Save $25 on Fire Stick 4K Max — This is the time to upgrade your streaming setup for less.
Lit Hub Weekly: May 18 – 22, 2026 — “I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film Kath…
The Literature Network — Classic texts and study guides.
Nvidia plans $250bn push to bolster OpenAI’s infrastructure ambitions — Political backlash grows as US states propose bans on new data centres, raising challenges for Nvidia and AI industry.
Powerful quake strikes Philippines, triggering tsunami alerts across Asia — Officials in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan warn of possible tsunami waves after a quake off Mindanao.
A baker documented exactly why her sourdough kept collapsing — turns out most starter ratios online are technically wrong for home kitchens, she recalculated the math.
How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston — If the Harlem Renaissance was—according to Henry Louis Gates Jr.—“surely as gay as it was black,” it was also disabled. Steeped in a nascent Black disability culture characterized by rejecting euge…
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