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If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret? — We Have A Transparency Problem When It Comes To Data Center Construction
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…
“A Table for Six” — Yoon and his wife are the first to arrive. My wife leads them to the living room. I’d been standing by the balcony window, watching the dark sky dump snow. It’s really coming down. In the distance,…
The Psychology of Digital Identity | Prachi Thapa | TEDxXavier International School Youth — How does social media shape the way young people see themselves? In a world where likes, comments, followers, views, and online approval can influence how we feel about ourselves, our…
Lit Hub Daily: July 16, 2026 — “Perhaps every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield.” Why Phoebe’s the real icon in The Catcher in the Rye. | Lit Hub Criticism How Israel turned Gaza i…
I’ll Take the Fire — One night in November 2021, I lost my sense of taste and smell. There was a woman sleeping in my bed. I licked her shoulder, buried my nose in her neck. I moved my face down between her legs. I cou…
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Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband. - Longreads — "You can wager on war, elections, awards shows, reality TV, scientific progress, and—in the case of writer Carrie Sun—your own spouse. If you want to play, you have to wonder: Are you…
In "Mutual Analysis" with Wallace Shawn’s Moth Days by George Prochnik — May 15, 2026 – "I do say to myself every day, Well, these crimes that have been committed in order for me to have this lovely fruit salad are inexcusable, but shouldn’t I at least enjoy the fruit salad?"
Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today! — At last: the new Téa Obreht novel is upon us! It comes to us in a day filled with other bounties: Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and Chang-Rae Lee are just a few of the other lauded names whoR…
How Digital Environments Shape Human Behaviour | Tapas Sen | TEDxWBS Youth — An exploration of how digital environments shape human behaviour and perception, and how they can gradually normalise extreme patterns of thinking. Tapas Sen is a veteran radio professional and content…
On Google declaring war on the Web — In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (yo
Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’d been sculpting and drawing since I was sixteen but when, at forty, I started writing short stories and novels, all my …
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“American Pokeberry,” by January Gill O’Neil — “Thrashers and cardinals dart / through the brush, through / the season.”
I outgrew Linux Mint, but I didn't want a harder Linux distro — I was ready to move beyond Linux Mint, but I wasn't interested in trading its simplicity for a distro that required more work.
Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of America’s Great Outdoors — If someone asked you to name the world’s most common plotline you’d probably come up with something like this: a hero heeds a call to adventure—maybe to slay a dragon or protect their homeland—then…
On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
July’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, and Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought …
This open-source Lightroom alternative processes RAW files locally and never asks for a subscription — Why pay when you can get all of this power for free?
Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies — One day in 1970, Hobby Lobby’s oft-told origin story goes, twenty-eight-year-old David Green was sitting at a lunch counter in Oklahoma City sharing frustrations with fellow…
Museo d'Arte Sacra di Catania in Catania, Italy — <p><img alt="The museum's rooftop terraces overlook Piazza del Duomo and the heart of Catania." data-width="1152" data-height="1536" width="300" height="200"…
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words - The Old New Thing — Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Today is Tom Stoppard Day in the UK — Today in London a who’s who of the literary world will be observing what may be the inaugural memorial day for the late playwright Tom Stoppard. Celebrations center around the renaming of the Duke …
Fences, not Sandboxes — Steve Yegge — Fences, not Sandboxes
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
How to Plan a Trip to Brimfield Antique Flea Market — Serious and silly all at once, this iconic Massachusetts market draws in fashion buyers, interior designers, and amateur collectors alike.
AirPods Turn 10 — Apple unveiled the first AirPods on September 7, 2016, meaning the iconic wireless headphones are now 10 years old. However, the AirPods did not launch until December that year. On the same day, Apple ignited controversy when it introduced the iPhone 7 and…
First look: Lego reveals a $800 Star Wars Star Destroyer — the longest set Lego has ever constructed — The biggest Star Destroyer in the galaxy is available from Oct. 1.
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. …
What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? — I bought a book on my Kindle — a thing I have done many times before. I exchanged money for goods, as one is supposed to do in a capitalist society. Then this happened. I wonder what response Jeff …
Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength — “What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback — Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks …
Annotated every margin of a library book by accident. Spent three hours trying to erase pen from pages that weren't mine.
Don't Subscribe So Casually — Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
Lucy Sante on An Anthology of New York Poets — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. The new…
Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Christi…
What Does Joyce Carol Oates Really Think of Our Addiction to Social Media? — On June 16th, The Hogarth Press published The Frenzy: Stories, Joyce Carol Oates’s 49th collection. The same day, “America’s foremost woman of letters” posted and reposted 40 odd times on X, commen…
Introducing: Straum Expedition — Straum hits the great outdoors with a new watch and a new direction.
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …
The Top Five Longreads of the Week - Longreads — Showcasing stories from Sloane Crosley; Zadie Smith; Mark Johnson and Saumya Khandelwal; Todd Kliman; and Sheila Liming.
The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath — My Sylvia Plath fandom dates back to the early nineties, when I was in my late teens and randomly pulled The Bell Jar off the shelf at my local library in suburban Salt Lake City. I had never heard…
The Point | A magazine of the examined life — The Point is a magazine of philosophical writing on everyday life and culture that is published three times a year in print and continuously online.
‘It's More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women's Travel Writing - Longreads — The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love — This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by a Brooklyn friend, at the poet’s own expense — W…
Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings - Longreads — "A Tennessee native and longtime film projectionist who first started working in Imax theaters in the ’90s, Caldwell has become integral to Imax’s 70-mm. rollouts even as he considers…
How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness — “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics — For novelist Cris Judar, language and bodies are charged with conventions and social norms, and as such, language and bodies contain within them the potential for social upheaval and change. They a…
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart — “If you can fall in love again and again … if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you’ve got it half…
A content creator tried to trademark “Hot Girls Read.” BookTok clapped back. — In a bit of unhinged book news, an influencer has come under fire this week after attempting to trademark the slogan “Hot Girls Read.” Allie Mitrovich, the content creator behind Allie …
Parse, Don't Validate — In a Language That Doesn't Want You To — Applying Alexis King's parse-don't-validate principle in TypeScript, where the type system fights back just enough to be annoying.
The Reluctant Researcher: How I Ended Up Writing a Historical Novel — Early on as a writer, I must have internalized the phrase “write what you know” and not looked back. My characters always seem to end up as extensions of me, living in small towns like the one I gr…
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…
Namwali Serpell and Angela Flournoy on Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby — Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell travels to Philadelphia to talk with writer Angela Flournoy about a scene from Tar Baby. Speaking at the Free Library, they trace the novel’…
The Internet Archive is quietly digitizing every library card catalog ever made... and you can search them all in one place. Weird rabbit hole if you like old classification systems.
Love Anyway — You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that…
How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Only trouble is interesting, and what causes more trouble for us humans than our love lives? With love, we’re leaping into…