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…
Should the Waters Take Us — CHENIERE DISPARUE, LOUISIANA, 1893 The inhabitants of Cheniere Disparue had a reputation for sloppy living. They ate whatever, married whomever. On Sundays, they sometimes went to sea or danced or …
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 14th — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
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 …
Cambridge professor Jason Arday quits amid plagiarism allegations — The scholar announced his resignation amid a new investigation into his qualifications.
Lit Hub Daily: May 26, 2026 — What should you read this summer? The Lit Hub staff would like to present these 19 novels for your consideration. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Marilyn Monroe, pop culture icon? More like Marilyn Monroe,…
I spent 15 years memorizing terminal commands the hard way—here’s what actually works — If you’re a beginner, it may take years before you encounter these simple tricks. In five minutes, I can make you better.
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism — “Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.”
US Yen Intervention Is a Band-Aid Fix for Bonds: Levin — Bloomberg Opinion's Jonathan Levin joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." For the first time in 15 years the US joined Japan in a yen intervention to support the yen and avoid forced selling of Treasury securities.…
Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives — I’ve read that the American crow will gather around their dead, seemingly performing a kind of funeral rites, looking at the fallen crow and calling out to it in improvised sequence as though enact…
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…
iPhone 18 could get two new Pro-level upgrades, per report - 9to5Mac — Apple’s base model iPhone 18 won’t launch until early 2027, but when it arrives, it could pack two new Pro-level upgrades.
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO — Earlier cases of the disease were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, the WHO said.
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…
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…
The spell that wouldn't leave · mahl.me — On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.
Three rows, 495 lb-ft of torque, and a price tag that undercuts the competition — This American icon is still undoubtedly the king of the full-size SUV segment.
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
Scammers Are Using AI to Pinpoint Where Your Holiday Photos Are Taken — Photos are a treasure trove for scammers.
The Pleasure of Being Left Alone — “An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”
On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life — The letter that my eye doctor had sent to the state’s agency included diagnosis and prognosis, and it described my functional limitations: some trouble reading print and computer text, more trouble…
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.”
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…
From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life — Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a horizonl…
On Trying—and Failing—to Write the Lives of Children in a Syrian Detention Camp — The boy is about five or six years old. He sits with his back against a giant red water tank, one hand on the spigot, the other on the post of the rusted metal platform that holds the tank up off 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…
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.”
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers — The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Julie Buntin (Famous Men) Nathaniel Rich (Cloudthief) Lucy …
Sutcliffe: Markets Closely Watching Oman-Iran Talks — The prospect of an interim deal focused on the Strait of Hormuz gained traction after Qatar said a proposal had been drafted and both American and Iranian officials sounded hopeful about reopening the crucial waterway.…
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…
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.
Everything announced at Made by Google '26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features | TechCrunch — From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer — There is one conversation I remember most distinctly from my MFA in literary translation. I was chatting with a nonfiction student about the novel I was translating at the time when she said with a…
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion — A few years ago, scrolling through social media when I should have been writing, I came across a photo of the Lady Bird edition of Rumpelstiltskin. Struggling to remember the specifics of the story…
Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today! — Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee…
Julia Elliott has won the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her collection Hellions. — Today, at a ceremony in Toronto, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which awards $150,000 annually to women and non-binary writers with books published in Canada and the US, announ
Schmeichel retires because of serious shoulder injury — Kasper Schmeichel retires at the age of 39, with the Celtic and Denmark goalkeeper unable to recover sufficiently from a serious shoulder injury.
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
40 Great New Books You May Have Missed — It feels like JD Vance has been everywhere in the last few weeks, and haven’t we suffered enough? As much as I’m enjoying the universal disdain he’s receiving from a diverse array of publications, …
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New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner — The allegation makes Reiner eligible for the death penalty - which has been paused in the state. Prosecutors have not said if they will pursue it.
Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-c…
* Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor — Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor. Download page for book.
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.
Your Android phone is slow because these 4 — Stop making your Android phone work overtime.
The Wire's opening credits have no music for the first three seconds... just street noise. Everything about how the show works is already there if you're listening.
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Iran, US set new conditions during Hormuz talks: What does this mean? — Oil prices surge as talks stall over competing demands, hampering prospects for reopening crucial strait.
As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are Stepping In — From my desk at the bookstore where I work, I can see most of fiction and all of our new releases, the poetry section by the front door, the edge of world history. I watch people bend down to exami…
the OED has a whole section for words that appear in exactly one book ever written. some of them are pretty good
Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing — Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.
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 …
Leaving Things In A Hot Car For A Month — Today, we leave a bunch of things in a hot car for a month to see what will happen. Watch today's GMMORE: https://youtu.be/1pRcqgql_UE Subscribe and click the bell icon so you'll know when we add a new episode! Sign up for Mythical…
Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives | TechCrunch — Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
Noah Baldino on the Georgia Review‘s Spring 2024 Issue — October 2025 Dear Chill Subs Writers— To be a magazine that truly represents the full stock of literary imagination means valuing emerging writers as much as established ones. The Georgia Review ta…
Soldiers praised for 'phenomenal job' helping crews tackle wildfires — About 200 members of the Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment have been involved in the operation.
Should Liverpool fans be worried about Iraola's fitness comments? — Should Liverpool fans be worried about Andoni Iraola's comments concerning the squad's fitness?
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.
How to Date a Fanatic — Before the first Molotov cocktail reached us, before the crowd with knives and machetes and wooden clubs arrived, it was a large rock that invaded our lunch table. It went past my left ear and boun…