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 …
The Isaac Mizrahi Documentary ‘Unzipped’ Is the Ultimate ’90s Fashion Portrait — Watch the Trailer — Watch the trailer for the re-release of 1995's 'Unzipped,' a documentary about fashion mogul Isaac Mizrahi.
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully — “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are — “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,R…
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem — This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confi
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time — “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Roots and the Meaning of Life — They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which t…
Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip — I am on a personal campaign to give the travel sphere something no one asked for but definitely—and desperately—needs, an Indigenous perspective. Whether European newcomers know it or not, tribal p…
Scammers Are Using AI to Pinpoint Where Your Holiday Photos Are Taken — Photos are a treasure trove for scammers.
One Man’s Crazy Scheme to Create a New County in Northern Ireland — Rarely am I able to pinpoint precisely where a novel comes from. Patricia Highsmith once wrote, “ideas come to me like birds in the corner of my eye.” Until very recently this felt like an apt syno…
AI Debt Sales Are Keeping US Treasury Yields High — Corporate offerings reach almost $1.5 trillion year to date, up 36% from a year earlier.
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare — 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. Mike ta…
Guardiola-Walker fallout revealed in new documentary — A new documentary series about Pep Guardiola's final two seasons at Manchester City reveals the bust-up he had with former captain Kyle Walker.
Melissa Albert Recommends Six Books Centered Around Art That Doesn’t Actually Exist — Years ago I worked as an editor at an art museum, where part of the job was proofreading stacks of gallery labels, divorced from the art they were describing. I developed an odd appetite for the
the way breaking bad's cinematographer framed walter in doorways. every single one makes you feel trapped before the plot even does
there's a database of every tv episode ever made with viewer ratings mapped out scene by scene!! so you can literally see the exact moment people stopped paying attention.
US Economy Can Keep Growing Despite Higher Rates, Says House — Wells Fargo’s Sarah House says Chair Kevin Warsh may use Jackson Hole to focus on longer-term questions facing the Federal Reserve rather than signal the next move on interest rates. She also discusses alternative…
The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life — On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while next to me a grown man in a VR headset spent six hours ascending the levels of a video game. It…
Pepperidge Farm Just Launched a New Fall Cookie That’s So Good, I Can’t Believe — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Design/2026/08-2026/08-26-Pepperidge-Farms"> When I think of Pepperidge Farm, I normally just think of Milano cookies. But it turns out…
Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities — Greg Sarris’s first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first …
Why Liverpool aren't getting the best out of Isak — BBC Sport pundit Joe Hart believes that Alexander Isak dropping deep to receive the ball instead of staying forward is a sign that the striker is low in confidence and isn't having the ball played to him in areas where he can…
Jeep’s XJ Cherokee Makes a Strong Case for the Practical Classic — “I don’t think I’ve driven one of those since high school,” I say, staring at the impeccable red XJ Cherokee. Memories from 30 years ago flood my brain; suddenly I’m in…
watched someone deadlift with their eyes closed and it made way more sense why their form was suddenly perfect?
Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: Doing more but not quite enough — Google's latest foldable sports some welcome upgrades, but its lack of a major design change is disappointing.
There is now an archive of eulogies given by Palestinian journalists to their martyred colleagues. — “[They] are the hands that have kept every standard of humanity from collapse, that have kept the world from transforming entirely into a dark, oppressive, savage world. A world…
Canada battles the clock, politics in scramble to avert Trump’s tariffs — Canadian officials are making a last-ditch effort to negotiate a reprieve from 50-percent tariffs.
Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor — The capital is not set to vote on a new mayor until 2028.
watched someone film themselves doing the same workout every day for a year and the before/after isn't even the point — it's how different their face looks by month six!!
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…
The Only Three Distinctions Between People — It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them…
A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War? — Whether a U.S. president has the power to declare war is a matter of American constitutional law. That question can be answered doctrinally, politically, or historically. Whichever way,…
On the First—and, So Far, Only—Book Ban Case Ever Heard by the Supreme Court — There had always been efforts to ban books, of course. And in the 1970s, those efforts exploded. In the early part of the decade, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom …
Firefighters battle to contain wildfires still burning near Bordeaux — Wildfires in southwestern France are continuing to burn near the city of Bordeaux.
Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age — Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each…
Writing As Spiritual Practice: Inside the World of Medieval Scribes — Because monastic life depended on books, it was natural that monks and nuns came to produce them. Many monasteries included a scriptorium, a dedicated writing room where books were meticulously cop…
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC | TechCrunch — The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."
This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On July 8, 1918, just two weeks shy of his 19th birthday, American Red Cross volunteer Ernest Hemingway was struck by an A…
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 …
The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings — “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
Stratechery by Ben Thompson — On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
The Sideload 041: A vision of Pixels to come — Welcome to episode 41 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Ben Schoon joins Will to discuss the future of Pixel,...
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older — A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment…
AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late — AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive…
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors — “Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government — Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan…
Pokémon Champions review: Peak monster battling — If you want to be the very best, Pokémon Champions is your new arena.
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…
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Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2026 — Zach St. George explores the wild scams of Australia’s snake venom con men. | Lit Hub History How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob Ferguson brought environmental liberation of the fae variety …
Spurs' Vicario set to join Juventus on loan — Tottenham accept a loan offer from Juventus for goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, which includes an option to buy.
Help, My Writing Group Think My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be — Hello again, gentle readers! Welcome back to another delightful installment of everyone’s favorite bimonthly drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s a column designed to bring…
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. — Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” Th…
Lit Hub Daily: July 2, 2026 — Why the Frederick Douglass speech we should revisit this July 4th isn’t the obvious one. | Lit Hub History These 10 great children’s books out in July include new work from Jaque Jours, Celes…
“Boardinghouse With No Visible Address,” a Poem by Franz Wright — So, I thought, as the door was unlocked and the landlord disappeared (no, he actually disappeared) and I got to examine the room unobserved. There it stood in its gray corner— the narrow bed, the s…
‘Brotherhood: A Cinematic Musical’ Trailer: Broadway Star Mauricio Martínez Leads a Melodic Immigration Saga — IndieWire columnist Daren Smith produces the film from writer/director Ross Boothe.
Ben-Gvir taunts Palestinian women prisoners over prison conditions — Ben-Gvir taunts Palestinian women prisoners over prison conditions
Iran, Oman Push Talks for ‘Interim’ Reopening of Hormuz — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi have discussed an “interim framework” aimed at resuming shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar has the context.…
Gold Holds Losses as Higher Oil Stokes September Rate-Hike Bets — Gold held a decline as increasing disruptions to oil flows from the Middle East reinforced expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates as soon as this week.