The cost of being single – and how friends are teaming up to beat it — Many singles face extra costs for housing, bills, food and holidays but there are ways to ease the burden.
Paradise Pawn — When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me my own disposable camera with twenty four pictures on it. I used up two taking pictures out the window of the plane. I remember thinking…
The Odysseys, ranked. — It’s a story we just can’t seem to quit. From antiquity to outer space, literature and film are filled with scrappy adventurers struggling to get home. This week, Christopher Nolan cash…
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
All Hands 2026 retrospective | Inside Rust Blog — Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
Jam City Announces New Album 'My World': Hear The Title Track — Way back in 1991, Guns N’ Roses ended Use Your Illusion II with “My World,” a quasi-rap freakout that only lasted a minute and a half before dissolving into sex noises and chaos. The beat kind of sounded like “Army…
How We Paint Dogs Says More About Us Than It Does Them — Dogs have long occupied a position at the boundary where the human animal meets the rest of creation. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin thought that the artists of Renaissance Venice—Titian, V…
Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 — Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy is coming to a screen near you. — Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy—comprised of the bestselling novels Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, and Cool Machine—is headed for the small screen. As Variety reported this morning, Apple…
Made by Google 2026: Everything announced — Catch every major Pixel, Pixel Buds, Pixel Watch and Pixel Tag reveal in under 12 minutes.
SEC Delays Crypto Regulation Meeting in Latest Industry Setback — The Securities and Exchange Commission canceled a Friday meeting where the agency was expected to unveil new plans for digital assets as landmark crypto legislation remains stalled in Congress.
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…
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…
American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present — In June 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last-ever letter, an essay on the American project. He had been invited to attend a celebration in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversa
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…
From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World — In her classic memoir of Soviet state terror in the 1930s, Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam recounts the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they flee from city to villa…
Follow Awe: Deb Olin Unferth on Writing Speculative Fiction — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Most of my books have elements of surrealism or sci-fi or the fantastic—the passenger pigeons mysteriously return, or a ch…
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself — Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of a…
Fujifilm Shares Tumble by a Record After Earnings Disappoint — Fujifilm Holdings Corp. shares tumbled by the most on record in Tokyo trading after the medical equipment maker reported first-quarter results that fell short of expectations.
AI escapes confinement — Over the course of two weeks, AI companies said that some of their AI models managed to hack systems.
Hudson Williams has pretty good taste in books. — Hudson Williams, the Canadian sweetheart behind the smash hit Heated Rivalry, has pledged his allegiance to the English department. Your favorite hockey hunk is a reader, people. And we must say, t…
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Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month. — It’s pride month! What better time to go spelunking in the archive, so as to situate the current moment, or thank an ancestor? I’ve been on a research kick, personally. Thanks to round-…
This guy tracked his resting heart rate for 10 years and found the one thing that actually tanked it — not what you'd expect.
Poetry Foundation Poems — A vast poetry archive.
Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I don’t work on an epic scale, though my ambitions run more to epic proportions than I like to admit. It’s a question of…
Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert…
Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…
Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank) — The first character I ever became obsessed with was Captain Hook. I couldn’t have been more than three or four, though I was already weird; I saw the 1953 Disney version of Peter Pan and im
Thai Cucumber Salad — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/photo/2026/07-2026/2026-07-thai-cucumber-salad/thai-cucumber-salad-065"> Thai cuisine is known (and loved) for its iconic, piercing spice. I was introduced to spicy foods from the time that I was…
Fed Dissents Show Migration Toward Hike, JPMorgan's Michele Says — Bob Michele, JPMorgan Asset Management's global head of fixed income, reacts to the decision by the Federal Reserve's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to leave rates unchanged. He speaks on Bloomberg…
Lit Hub Daily: July 6, 2026 — Michael Dirda makes the case for Moby-Dick as the ultimate American novel. | Lit Hub Criticism Why the “legendary” dinner party from Plato’s Symposium is actually about love. | Lit Hub …
Falling Danube flow forces shutdown of Romania’s sole nuclear plant — Romania had tried to avert a total shutdown of the plant, which usually generates a fifth of the country's electricity.
Stephen Bear jailed over sex offender breaches — The TV personality posted in Brazil "the police will not be able to catch" him, a court hears.
AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos — As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All — If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding…
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…
Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next — Fancy something unusual and unpredictable? Funny or sexy? No problem. Use our unique mood and emotion search to find great books with exactly the flavour you've asked for.
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World — The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — al
“The Rival” — It was winter when Laura left her husband without warning, and summer when she returned. A livid evening, fluorescent sunset; she was standing, dazed by the heat, outside her house. The curtains of…
Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia’s Java Sea — Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia's Java Sea
Adani Wins Dismissal in US Fraud Case — Gautam Adani has won the dismissal of US fraud charges that threatened his global ambitions. After months of legal maneuvering, a major hurdle is gone, potentially clearing the way for the Indian billionaire to expand in the US. (Source:…
Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity — “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Android Auto breaks Google Maps on your smartwatch, and Google has known for years — Wear OS should be the perfect driving companion.
This Week in Literary History: America Turns 250 — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. This week, the United States of America turns 250. It’s a milestone that brings mixed feelings at best, considering the re…
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund CEO Eyes Future Risks — Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, tells Bloomberg he is cautious on future risks including AI valuations, inflation and geopolitical conflict, despite record results. Norges Bank…
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…
Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West — Belgrade-born Téa Obreht’s first novel, The Tiger’s Wife (2011), set against the landscape of the former Yugoslavia, blended myth, village life, wartime strife and deep grandfather-granddaughter lo…
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NYT Connections hints and answers for August 4. Tips to solve 'Connections' #1150. — Everything you need to solve 'Connections' #1150.
Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? — There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other.
Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pocket Jam’ helps you learn and practice your favorite songs - 9to5Mac — Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app...
Ancient Roman shipwreck discovered off Sicily coast — Italy's culture minister says it is one of the most important underwater archaeological finds in years.
Importance And Need of Five Elements | Manas Sn Vig | TEDxMRIS Charmwood Youth — This videos is about why balancing of five elements in human body is important for materialistic and spiritual development. Manas Sn Vig is an entrepreneur, educator, and lifelong learner whose…
Judge Orders Kalshi to Stop Offering Most Wagers in Washington — Kalshi was told by a judge to stop offering most of its prediction market contracts in Washington state, after regulators said they likely constituted an illegal gambling operation.
One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment — Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
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Sawyers puts heartbreak behind her to claim gold — English long jumper Jazmin Sawyers overcomes previous major championship disappointments to win Commonwealth gold.
Nine Fabulous Books by Drag Performers Who Were Never Featured on RuPaul’s Drag Race — There are some dazzling books by drag queens who have risen to stardom, either through social media like TikTok or reality shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. Of course I attended Bob the Drag Queen
How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created — The most dramatic moment in Jane Austen’s Emma, and, arguably, in her whole body of work, has nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’…