On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery — Birth fractured my sense of time—of how time unfolded. I had previously taken for granted that time passed swiftly from one moment to the next. I organized my understanding of my own life according…
Sources: QB Jacoby Brissett to report for Cardinals minicamp — Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett will report for Arizona's mandatory minicamp this week, sources told ESPN, after holding out for all of the team's offseason program while he awaits a reworked contract for this s
Where, when and how to watch the 2026 solar eclipse — This August a total solar eclipse is set to be visible across parts of Europe, while a partial eclipse will sweep across about a quarter of the planet – here’s how to catch it
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes, Katy Waldman on Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Hamilton Cain on Josh Weil’s What Came West, Adam Gopnik on Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Do…
How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
WhatsApp usernames launch 'later this year' – here's how to get yours now — WhatsApp has just announced that usernames are officially coming, but you might not be able to get yours just yet....
“Boring Tree” — I feel like I’m being followed by a woman. She has the kind of gait where her feet point a bit outwards, and she kicks them with a little huff to get more from every step, only to land heavy on the…
Fox buys Roku—what does this mean for your streaming services? — Fox wants to rule both live sports and streaming shows.
The Gulf does not have to choose Iran or Israel — It has to choose stability or permanent war.
Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel — Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—before the pandemic, before 2016, before the internet, before…
The Powerful Freedom of BDSM — The specific terminology varies across the world, but generally, BDSM is an umbrella term that reflects a wide range of erotic desires, behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities related…
Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days | TechCrunch — Only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register before rates hike.
A Global Journey: Understanding Centuries of Black Exclusion and Erasure in Healthcare — Sugarcane plantations reigned supreme in Trelawny, Jamaica, in the late 1700s, when there were more than one hundred estates. The parish, covered by loamy rainforest soil, was established…
Hilden Mill in Lisburn and Castlereagh — The decaying giant of Ulster’s lost linen empire.
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life — We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…
Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious — Usborne children's coding books for a new generation
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…
Five totally plausible reading trends to watch out for this summer. — What’s everyone reading this summer? No, better yet—what do we think everyone else will be reading? Is 2026 the season of the post-trauma plot? Are we reading big books, or novellas? Indoors …
This library lets you read the exact first editions authors held in their hands — marginalia, coffee stains, everything!! 📚✨
Five Things I Got Wrong in My First Novel, According to My Dad — My dad worked with kids for forty years, teenage boys mostly, who’d been in trouble and were committed through the state to live somewhere else a while in hopes of getting themselves together. They…
World War 2 "B" Ration Corn Fritters — New Episodes of World War II with Tom Hanks Premiere Mondays at 8/7c, part of HISTORY HONORS 250, only on History. Watch next day on the History app. • WWII Show Page - https://www.history.com/shows/world-war-ii-with-tom-hanks • For a…
Top B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This May — Enjoy top deals on cameras, computers, and tech essentials at B&H Photo.
How Not to Dwell on the Past — “We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the l…
3 exciting Netflix thrillers to watch this week (June 29-July 5) — Alan Ritchson takes on a machine in one of our Netflix thrillers to stream.
Lit Hub Weekly: May 25 – 29, 2026 — Spend your summer reading with Lit Hub! Welcome to the Best of the Best Books reading challenge, where you’ll have the chance to meet your reading goals, win prizes, and prove you’re better than yo…
Lit Hub Weekly: June 1 – 5, 2026 — Sharon Blackie explores the grounding power of fairy tales. | Lit Hub Criticism What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics…
Why has Keir Starmer resigned as UK prime minister? — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation after just two years in office.
Best cooling deal at Prime Day: Save 35% on a Yeti cooler and 40% on a Cuisinart ice cream maker. — Spend the summer in cooling sheets, eating homemade ice cream with a fan pointed directly at you.
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
Thousands of Malawians flee homes in South Africa amid xenophobic threats — Thousands of migrants shelter in Durban park after being driven from their homes ahead of a June 30 expulsion ultimatum.
How a Photographer Handmade His Dream 8x10 Camera for Everyone — A lightweight, portable large-format 8x10" camera.
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
“Authority” — It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since he took his love away. Josephine knows the world is crowded with people like her, that hers is a fundamentally ordinary predicament, but she feels …
Peru elects Keiko Fujimori in victory for Latin American right — Peru's conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori vows that the ‘doors to dialogue will always be open.’
Vanderbilt lands class of 2027 top-20 guard Gabe Nesmith — Top-20 rising senior Gabe Nesmith -- cousin of Pacers guard Aaron Nesmith -- committed to Vanderbilt on Tuesday, giving coach Mark Byington the highest-ranked recruit of his career.
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
Slow Pulp Announce New Album 'Melodie': Hear "Better Man" — Slow Pulp’s Yard was a highlight of 2023 that had them making their TV debut on CBS’ Saturday Sessions and covering Lifehouse on SiriusXMU. The Chicago band is back today to announce Melodie, which arrives this fall. The
Feeling Creatively Stuck? Try Following the Routines of Other Types of Artists — Before the sun rose, while her children slept, Toni Morrison hauled herself from her bed to her desk and began to write. Stephen King wrote at a child’s tiny desk in a trailer. In the basement of P…
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UTAW: UK Wikipedia Workers seek union recognition — Wikipedia workers in Britain request union recognition with UTAW, national branch of the CWU
Lit Hub Daily: May 27, 2026 — Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft Tho…
“Effaced…” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine — “Effaced…” by Jawdat Fakhreddine translated by Huda Fakhreddine Effaced, our villages, squares and skies. Nothing remains but smoke, and fires roaming freely. Houses, gardens, fields, all gone. The…
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.”
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: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (Al…
The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter — Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to d…
'House of the Dragon' may be hiding Daeron Targaryen in plain sight — Did you spot him?
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece — “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI. — In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical …
How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable? — It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over the course of that story. But what to do if you have a ch…