I should not have liked the world’s first smart home. — In Northumberland, I learn a shocking fact about some lamps, and utter the phrase "it gets worse". | 🌍 AD: Get the best deal NordVPN's offering right now: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.t
Carrie R. Moore has won the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award. — Last night, in a ceremony, the New York Public Library announced the winner of its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by writers 35 and younger. This year’s winner is Carrie …
An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise — Tim Curry, who died this week at 80, will probably always be best known for his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not unreasonably. With his snug corset and un…
This blog is written in en-GB — Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's…
Google Home just became a power user's paradise — Google Home MCP opens the smart home to every AI agent; Android 17 QPR1 and One UI 9 land the same week; Trash: the 39 toll booth for your light bulbs.
My Sister’s Alcoholism Is Putting Her Grandson at Risk. What Should I Do? — He has discovered her unconscious on more than one occasion.
Here’s what’s making us happy this week. — Hello, Lit Hubbers. It’s been a while. But the spring sun has put this staffer in a joy-lifting mood once again. What’s been making us happy recently? Earlier this month, Molly Odintz e…
The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life — “Come with me. I’ll teach you the flowers and the stars.”
The Mudder, the Lawyer, the Prince, and Mr. Wrong — “I’ve only got one gear in love—downhill. I don’t know how else to do it!”
Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs — His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen.
Academy Invites 529 New Members, Including the Safdie Brothers, Teyana Taylor, Jacob Elordi, Josh O’Connor, Mia Goth, and More — Academy Invites 529 New Members, Including Sara Bareilles, Zach Cregger, Jacob Elordi, Josh O'Connor and Josh and Bennie Safdie
What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read — After finishing an early draft of my novel New Skin, I realized that I had been writing all along for someone specific to read the book and finally understand what I felt. I don’t mean that I consi…
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches — The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
A road to Lisp: Why Lisp | scotto.me — Why Lisp
How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff - Longreads — Writing is always going to be hard and why it's worth the struggle.
Home — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans tells the story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today.
Recommended Reading: ERG Media’s “Grand Seiko” Book Is How Modern Brand Books Should Be Done — With a beautiful and useful combination of artwork and scholarship, with thoughtful packaging from inside to out, it doesn't get much better than this.
US Yield Swings Abate Before Jobs Data After Volatile Week — US Treasuries posted small moves at the end of a volatile week as bondholders awaited a key jobs report for clues on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path.
The Perishable, Never-Ending Genius of Lionel Messi — How are his legions of fans savoring what could be the last World Cup of their idol? I dove into a sea of screaming Messis to find out.
Czech Billionaire Premier Feuds With Central Bank Over Rate Hike — The Czech prime minister heightened his public criticism of the central bank’s tight monetary policy, saying its latest move to raise interest rates will hurt the economy.
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
Brentford hold Bournemouth as Rose's wait for a win continues — Marco Rose's wait for a first Premier League victory as Bournemouth head coach continues as they are held to a 2-2 draw by Brentford at Vitality Stadium.
AP college football Week 2 poll reaction: What's next for each Top 25 team — A look at this week's Top 25.
Gaining Ground — The first time I saw this place, I knew I had come home. I do not mean I knew it in a peaceful, comforting sort of way, the way one recognizes an old friend; that first time it was like an electric…
My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Fully Modded - Longreads — "Forget Vin Diesel. Asian Americans are the heroes of import car culture."
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…
The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written — You wouldn’t have bet on it, the frail famous poet teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor and the athletic secretary of the campus residence half her age. But…
Joshua Project - Reaching the Unreached | Joshua Project — Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to identify the ethnic people groups of the world with the fewest followers of Jesus. Join us in reaching the unreached.
The True Purpose of Tarot — “Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as touchingly self-negating: …
Map that shows every campground in North America with user photos and actual conditions reported that day. No ratings inflation, just what people actually found.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Becca Rothfeld on Rachel Cusk’s Life of M, Emmet Fraizer on Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn, Charlotte Wood on Dorthe Nors’s Range, Walton Muyumb…
How We Used To Get Jobs — A Newspaper Classifieds Story
The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive — “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to…
How to Fix Our Broken Unemployment System — America’s unemployment insurance system was designed for the workers of the 1920s. It was so utterly inadequate during the pandemic — the most sudden and severe job loss the US has ever seen — that Congress had to build a whole new…
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal — SoftBank revealed the timing in response to questions about bribery.
The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile — On a crisp March day in 2013, the beginning of the antipodal fall, Sofía Brito walked through a wrought iron fence, up a short flight of stairs, and between the slender salmon columns leading into t…
Hong Kong jails Tiananmen vigil activists for seven years — Hong Kong jails Tiananmen vigil activists for seven years
The human is the loop — After a few weeks away from AI, I see my usage wasn't always productive or healthy.
Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count — By allying with Segalovich in the Israeli vote, Abbas is hoping for greater acceptance in Israeli coalition politics.
Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly — Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy make
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…
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics | TechCrunch — General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion…
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life — “To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work — For writers like me, who had crossed borders to arrive in the West, Ondaatje’s disregard for established boundaries taught us how to spell out our own liberation.
Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
Indians Plow Record Funds Into Foreign Stocks, Debt in June — Indians sent a record amount of money abroad in June to buy equity and debt, accelerating a trend among local investors to diversify their portfolios overseas.
MLB playoff tracker 2026: Clinching scenarios, bracket, schedule — From current playoff matchups to league races to the postseason schedule, we have everything you need to know.
Ukrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor says — A 14-year-old child was among four others injured, the acting governor of Russia's Belgorod region says.
“Weird” is a weird word — From Beowulf to Shakespeare to you
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…
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Optical Company Starman Buys GoPro for $285 Million, Plans Move Into AI, Defense, and National Security — It's a good day for GoPro's shareholders.
Drinking Movies: Down and Out at Cannes — “Nicolas Cage went to Las Vegas to drink himself to death in Leaving Las Vegas, Tabea Blumenschein in Ticket of No Return went to Berlin, and I went to Cannes.”
How easy is it to find an NHS dentist? It depends where you live — Nearly 600 practices in England have withdrawn from NHS dentistry over the last 10 years, as the service heads towards a two-tier system.
Here’s what’s making us happy this week. — As summer comes to a close, we at Lit Hub are celebrating milestones and jumping into the deep end. What’s making us happy? Climbing mountains. We’re looking autumn square in the face a…
Plana House is a free-to-download design for a compact timber home — <p>Architect Kristijan Markoc has created a downloadable template for a "deliberately modest", two-bedroom timber home designed to be adapted to any site. Named Plana House, the replicable home design has a…
GitHub - mk6i/open-oscar-server: Self-hostable instant messaging server compatible with classic AIM and ICQ clients written in golang. (Independently developed, not affiliated with or endorsed by AOL)
On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis — Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different levels…
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny — “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize. — This morning, Kirkus Reviews announced the 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, which recognizes excellence in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. Books are sel…