How Russian dissidents are being punished by both Russia and Europe — While Moscow is stripping citizenship rights, European states are curbing access to legal status for Russian emigres.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler, and Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book r…
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How Donkey Kong toppled Atari — Atari could have had the NES but walked away over Nintendo's deal with Coleco
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World — We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for …
Zanagrams - free daily word puzzle — A free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it.
How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change — We are living in a time of massive upheaval—of grave crisis and also enormous opportunity. The world is transforming at a breakneck pace and will continue to change dramatically in our lifetime. Th…
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…
NeoGAF — A long-running game forum.
This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys. — Have you ever wondered how long those nice people were actually stranded on the Orient Express? Or speculated about the carriage distance from London to Longbourn? Well, dear reader, have I got a t…
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Sly Flourish: Run great tabletop roleplaying games. — Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for game masters written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.
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…
LAN Party House — We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.
Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature — Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend all your time arou…
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…
The BBC Tetris Companion — Overview and history of the BBC Bridge Companion home game console, and a brief overview of a composite video mod, repairs, the design of a game cartridge PCB, and the development of a new puzzle game for the obscure system.
Dungeons & Dragons | The Official Home of D&D — Official rules and lore.
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
'Directive 8020' review: A compelling space horror that's more fun to watch than play — Supermassive's latest is a solid story trapped inside a repetitive game.
donjon; Fantasy Tools — A collection of random generators for Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games
Where Love Goes When It Goes — This is an excerpt from Traversal. Where does love go when it goes? It is a common question, contrived in its commonness yet savagely sincere, bellowing in the bosom of every brokenhearted lover, r…
Dungeon Mastering | The 5e Blog — Your Greatest Adventure Starts Today! Read D&D 5th Edition guides and tips from seasoned dungeon masters and enthusiast players.
Play video games? You, too, could become an air traffic controller. — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is touting the success of a campaign targeting video gamers to train as air traffic controllers.
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are — “My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this …
Sunflowers: Logic Puzzle Game — A new logic puzzle game. Use number clues to plant sunflowers around your logical garden. Unlimited free puzzles across 6 different difficulty levels.
Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality — Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from …
Voronoi Go — Play the ancient game of Go without the grid. Capture territory and best your opponent in a flowing, geometry-driven battle of wits.
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Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks? — Who’s the better narrator for an audiobook: the author of the book or a professional voice actor? Trick question. The answer is both, and/or, it depends. Let’s leave nonfiction out of this discussi…
One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time — <p>Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor…
Air raids, conscripts and China: How Myanmar’s military is regaining ground — Rebel fighters in Myanmar lose key towns as conscription, relentless air raids and Chinese support bolster the military.
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What Anne of Green Gables Reveals About White Girlhood — “How dare you!” Anne Shirley seethes. Anne stands in her one-room country schoolhouse wearing a gingham dress. She grips in her girlish hands the pale wooden frame of her writing slate—or rather, w…
NYT's Wordle to become a TV game show | TechCrunch — The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc. — Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their…
Elite Private Schools Offer Aid to Families Making $500,000 — Private schools in the US are increasing financial aid and advertising discounts to attract students, as soaring tuition and a declining population of school-age children intensify competition. Some schools, such as…
Lululemon Needs a Full Product Overhaul, Widlitz Says — SW Retail Advisors President and founder Stacey Widlitz discusses Lululemon Athletica lowering its full-year outlook for a second straight quarter on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Departing Romero says he wasn't perfect at Spurs — Cristian Romero says he "wasn't perfect" during his five-year stint at Tottenham Hotspur as he prepares to complete a move to Atletico Madrid.
XGIMI Vibe One Battery-Powered Projector Review (2026) — With the curtains closed and the power cable nearby, this affordable Full HD smart projector is a compact delight.
2025 vs. 2026 Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: All Upgrades Compared — Apple this week announced a new Mac Studio with the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, discontinuing the M4 Max and M3 Ultra models that had been on sale since March 2025. The machine's design is unchanged for a fifth…
US Stock Futures Gain as Nasdaq 100 Looks to Snap Five-Day Slump — US stock futures rose in early trading Friday, putting the Nasdaq 100 on track to end a five-day losing streak as yields hold steady and Bitcoin soars.
Collections: Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? — At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism — Hannah Arendt’s 1936 lectures in Paris, where she had spent the past year and a half, were the first signals to the émigré population at large that she still had something to say. They were her…
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…
Country People — The wife had been offered a one-year visiting professorship at a college in Vermont, and the husband was married to the wife. They had two children, a son and a daughter. The plan was for the husba…
Don't Wordle — Don't Wordle is a daily word game: try not to guess the hidden word. Use clues from your guesses to narrow down valid words while avoiding the Wordle answer. One new puzzle every day.
Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity — “There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear… People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the d…
Iran Squeezing Saudi Oil on East and West, Schork Says — Stephen Schork, principal and editor at The Schork Group, explains Iran’s expanded control of Middle East oil flows and says the US strategic petroleum reserve “will be drawn down, by November, to its operational limits.”…
Moderna, Merck Cancer Vax Gives Hope — Scientists are on the cusp of fulfilling a decades-long quest: to use vaccines to teach the immune system to spot and destroy cancer cells. News that an mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Merck & Co. and Moderna Inc. kept melanoma from…
Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game — We’re back into the strip mahjong games today, here going back to 1991. Video System is a company that’s probably best known in retro-gaming circles for Aero...
Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 11, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1787.
Am I the Asshole For Refusing an Invitation to Submit Work? — Howdy, friends! Welcome back to another perfect installment of Am I The Literary Asshole?, a drunken advice column that’s just happy to be here. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m proud to anno…
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People Trying Hard To 'Outfox' S&P 500: Cutright — Brooks Cutright, portfolio manager at Hedgeye Asset Management, joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Index tracking funds have nearly $27 trillion tied to the S&P 500. This Friday the S&P 500 is set to…
Michael Sheen hopes 'extraordinary' reaction to toxic waste documentary spurs action — Dozens of people contacted BBC Wales following coverage of Sheen's investigation into chemical giant Monsanto.
‘It’s just not as much fun for me anymore’: Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development | VGC — There are three games he’d still like to make, but feels he’s “done what I set out to do”…
A Week of Fresh Air in Scandinavia | Cup of Jo — After spending time with our family in England, the boys headed back…
Battle of the Aussie Snake Men: Charles Underwood vs. Joseph Shires — Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man— “Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can; I intend to let him bite me, all the risk I will endure, Just to prove the sterling…