The Soothing Unsubtlety of UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun — “What a relief, a breath of fresh air, to be reminded what the barest, sloppiest propaganda can look like.”
I Am a Woman in My Thirties, and I Am Thriving — I take a mental health walk and call my mother. I then take another mental health walk.
Gnooks - Discover new Books — Discover new authors.
London Review of Books — Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
Can the World Cup Transcend Donald Trump? — How to defeat the politics of a fraught tournament.
Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon — If you ask anybody in Toronto, they’ll tell you that raccoons, AKA the Procyon lotor (Latin for “before-dog washer,” given their apparent penchant for washing their food), are everywhere. The creat…
Idiots: On Munch and von Trier by Karl Ove Knausgaard — June 4, 2026 – “Not direct access to reality, of course, but a different kind of access.”
Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature — Authors you might also like.
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…
Morioka Shoten | Takram — Morioka Shoten is a tiny bookstore of “a Single Room with a Single Book” in Tokyo. It sells only one book; more precisely, multiple copies of one title that changes weekly, with a small book-inspired art exhibition on the walls. Its challenging,…
What will be left for us to work on? — My keynote at ICML 2026
Could I Become a Kickboxer at 48? I Went to Thailand to Find Out. — A week inside a grueling Muay Thai training program in Phuket.
Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2026 — Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Sofia Montrone on becoming reacquainted with her grandfather through fiction: “Before I was a …
Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System? — The grandeur of Saturn is stunning to behold when viewed through a telescope. Possibly the most iconic and easily identifiable member of our solar system, this “ringed planet” has a vol…
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…
But We Had Music — How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have…
The post-Hormuz era offers Africa a great opportunity — But to capture its benefits, the continent needs to develop an effective, common maritime policy.
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, Lauren Collins’s They Stole a City, and Julie Buntin’s Famous Men all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks,…
The Absurd Virtual Spectacle of Trump’s D.C. — I recently moved away from Washington, but there’s no way to escape propagandistic imagery of the President’s urban vanity projects.
World Cup Daily LIVE: USMNT, Canada gameday; Haaland at Stanley Cup — Enjoy all the updates from the World Cup as we have two matches Friday, with features, news, video analysis and color from around the competition.
The Rise and Rise of Balloon Racing’s First Family - Longreads — "Joe Heartsill and his sons, Rhett and Lucas, are international eminences in a very obscure corner of professional sports."
Wordle today: The answer and hints for August 2, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1870.
You can just say it — There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. It usually goes something like this: In the age of AI, we should still prefer humans in certain roles because AI could never perform the tasks required
Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK — No 10 says the prime minister's plans will "give people some room to breathe", but opposition figures accuse him of "hypocrisy".
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop - Longreads — “Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media — I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commer…
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…
Hard Rain - Longreads — "The battle over weather modification."
The Sun — Personal, political, provocative.
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.”
Stroustrup's Rule — Beginners need explicit syntax, experts want terse syntax.
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
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
Elegant Dirty Diary Entry by Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-Sperling — May 7, 2026 – New books by César Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Maïa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.
The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity — When AI first began colonizing language — which is still our best instrument for bridging the abyss between us, a container for thought and feeling that shapes the…
Literotica Free Adult Community - Erotic Story and Audio Index - Literotica.com — Literotica Free Adult Community offers over 100,000 free sex stories, erotic audio, chat, personals, cams, and much more. Updated Daily.
Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams — I was reading one of Jules Verne’s novels when I first experienced the magic of writing. The heroes had just crashed their balloon in the desert. The heat was relentless. They had run out of food d…
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel? — I gave my book to my partner before I gave it to my parents, figuring it was better to conquer one gut-churning fear at a time. I refused to watch him read it, but I was aware when he reached the s…
Emily Doyle on the Subtle Tyranny of Realism — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. My grandmother suffers from dementia. I could say that her sense of reality is unstable, but that would be misleading. It …
Homepage - Public Books — Think in public.
The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History — The first episode of the first season of the genre-redefining streaming series Chef’s Table on Netflix begins, as one might expect, in Italy. Massimo Bottura, the omnipresent, award-winning, and mu…
Lit Hub Daily: July 29, 2026 — How is a fascination with Sylvia Plath like a fascination with true crime? Sarai Walker explores obsession, ownership, and Plath worship. | Lit Hub Biography “Even as a toddler, I’m awed by t…
For a Historian, the Facts of Any Given Life Disappear the Moment They Occur — Caked calcium to be strip-mined from Dad’s bathtub and sink. Thick snowdrifts of dust to plow from his bedside tables. Looming towers of credit card statements and tax documents to audit and shred…
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware — A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email…
Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing. — If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t check out new books the way normal people do. Your average reader, when…
Mitakon's New Full-Frame Cine Primes Have a Ludicrously Fast T1 Aperture — T1 and feelin' fine.
Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today! — The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. T…
A pictorial introduction to differential geometry, leading to Maxwell's equations as three pictures — In this article we present pictorially the foundation of differential geometry which is a crucial tool for multiple areas of physics, notably general and special relativity, but
Guyana ferry disaster: families demand answers as around 100 feared dead — Officials say 76 of the roughly 179 people believed to have been aboard survived, and 53 bodies have been found so far.
The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
The FPV Drone Footage From Ukraine Is Unprecedented — Haunting and terrifying.
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on July 17, 2026 — It's day three of the lunar cycle.
Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth — My edition of Élisabeth was written by a man called Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. The novel didn’t go far and eventually disappeared from circulation. Sixty years later Gallim…
Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo — A new feature for Spotify’s Fitness hub.
“Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom — The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.
GitHub - FrigadeHQ/yap: Free, open source voice dictation for macOS. On-device transcription with Apple's Speech framework. No cloud, no API keys, no account. — Free, open source voice dictation for macOS. On-device transcription with Apple's Speech framework. No cloud, no API…
On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York — Scenario 1 I land in Jakarta just in time for Chinese New Year. I can smell the cigarette smoke and rain before the plane even touches the tarmac; my body retrieves memories faster than my mind can…
Norris wins his first grand prix of year in Hungary — Lando Norris takes his and McLaren's first victory of the year in a compelling Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Beauty of the Days Gone By — The idea for The Beauty of the Days Gone By first came to me while driving across Texas when my two boys were small, after immersing myself in the rich Southwestern histories of Anglo settler child…