Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2026 — S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space…
36 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall — Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds with one stone, of course, and this after all is Literary …
ModDB — Game mods galore.
I’m Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp — Blending the real and digital worlds, once more.
Here are the winners of the 2026 Kirkus Prize. — Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: …
Changelog 32 - Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools — You know what's funnier than 24?
Thousands rally in London in support of Gaza, demand new PM take action — Demonstrators call on Andy Burnham to impose arms embargo on Israel and pressure its government to end genocide.
Thranpages :: How Did I Do :: SimCity 3k in 4k — SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows:...
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Do Not Spare Yourself — The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment an…
11 Books About Women Who Rewrote Life and Art — I’ve been on the hunt for books by women for as long as I can remember. My favorite stories are usually not romances, but stories of women trying to make sense of how they can be the main character…
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Chantel Acevedo on Reimagining Her Father Through Fiction — When I consider my father, who disappeared almost entirely from my life in my infancy, I think of what I don’t know. I don’t remember his hands, or his voice, how he formed arguments, whether he wa…
Dungeon Proof Crawler — A browser roguelike where every monster is an Algae proof. Recover Miriam's ring before sunrise.
The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party — Diving into the nostalgia of LAN parties and exploring its rise, fall, and comeback in the evolving landscape of multiplayer gaming
Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch | Factorio — Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
WhoDunnitAI — The Voice-Driven Murder Mystery — Step into the interrogation room. Interview AI suspects with your own voice, catch their lies, and accuse the killer to their face. Solve the murder at Blackwood Manor — if you can.
Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' — "They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
Relay — Podcasts for the tech-curious.
The BBC Tetris Companion — Overview and history of the BBC Bridge Companion home game console, and a brief overview of a composite video mod, repairs, the design of a game cartridge PCB, and the development of a new puzzle game for the obscure system.
Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift — “Our neurons must be used … not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to…
Pope pledges action on clergy child abuse in meeting with French survivors — Head of the Roman Catholic Church holds 'emotional' two-hour meeting with seven abuse victims in French town of Lourdes.
What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags? — Here’s the thing about indie lit: it’s full of problems everyone complains about and almost nobody has the time, money, or spreadsheet stamina to solve. How can lit mags get more subscr…
Counterpoint: the best gaming writing isn't about winning. This archives every major game balance patch since 2010 — you can literally watch designers argue with themselves across years.
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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.”
Airport Simulator — The sky (and your endurance) is the limit!
Beyond All Reason ★ RTS — Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and air with 2 factions and 400 unique units. Enjoy…
Fall book clubs to join based on your personality type. — Contrary to popular belief, reading—our favorite thing in the world—needn’t be antisocial. Earlier this summer, The New York Times dubbed this the year of literary group travel. This fall, I&…
Poco’s F9 Ultra pairs an ultra-bright display with a glowing Bose subwoofer — The cheaper F9 Pro packs the same screen, but simpler stereo speakers.
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‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment — Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week course
Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch — Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market — But human artists still "must remain at the center," PlayStation maker says.
J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life — In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, which he had praised in Tree and Leaf &…
This Fried Eggplant Is So Much Crispier Than Any Other Version — Forget breaded eggplant — this fried eggplant recipe is crispier, lighter, aromatically seasoned and almost impossible to stop eating!
Inside the Rise of America’s Oligarch Class—And What It Means For All of Us — In early 2014, a pair of political scientists published a striking study on the health, or lack thereof, of American democracy. Authored by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern Uni…
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
Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs — The 1998 shooter now runs on Symbian hardware, with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support added.
Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2026 — Tarot reader Lisa Stardust examines Sylvia Plath’s relationship to her deck. | Lit Hub Criticism How the expectation that “books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as…
Google I/O 2026 AI and Android XR Highlights — Gemini and Android XR took center stage at Google I/O.
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Photographer Awarded Damages After Being Strip-Searched by Greek Police — She was strip searched without being charged with an offense.
Seventh Sanctum: the page of generators - random tools for art, gaming, writing, and imagination. — A site of generators to randomly produce concepts, characters, and descriptions for stories, role-playing games, and art, as well as have fun and alleviate creative blocks.
VGMusic - 31806 Game Music MIDI files — Video Game MIDI music, since 1996!
French TV programme pulled after actress speaks out on Gaza — France Televisions has removed the replay of a programme after actress Adèle Haenel denounced the Gaza genocide.
Dungeon Mastering | The 5e Blog — Your Greatest Adventure Starts Today! Read D&D 5th Edition guides and tips from seasoned dungeon masters and enthusiast players.
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 — Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap…
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Video Game Reviews, Articles, Trailers and more — Not every critic is the same. Metacritic offers aggregated game reviews from the top critics, and our own METASCORE pinpoints at a glance how each game was reviewed.
Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall — It seems odd, wrong even, that “patience” and “passion” — the twin roots of love — should share a root in pāti, Latin for “to suffer.” But anyone who…
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo in historic human victory - KED Global — Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, K
The U.S. Open has an influencer problem — Ring lights, outfit shoots, and expensive suites have turned the tournament into the latest target of influencer fatigue.
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The Cypherpunk Library — A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
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Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young — (On June 16, 1976, the youth of Soweto, Johannesburg’s massive Black township, rose up to protest a new rule making Afrikaans the language of instruction in their schools—a language that most did n…
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