How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
Antonelli impressive and one of Colapinto's best weekends - driver ratings — BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator Harry Benjamin rates how the drivers performed during the Spanish Grand Prix.
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? — The largest U.S. automakers have backed away from electric vehicles, even as global sales are booming. The decision may make them obsolete.
At the Crucible: Snooker’s World Series — “Contemporary snooker is defined by an ongoing anomaly: three men in their fifties still pummel younger players.”
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…
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” — Thick into the edits to my time-travel-rom-com novel set in the Regency era about two sisters who couldn’t be more different (one loves Jane Austen, one loves Skims), my gentle editor suggested I r…
Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! — As we go easing into the holiday weekend, there’s a smaller batch of releases: though the ones that are here, are ones that count. Jenny Jackson’s next hotly anticipated novel, The Sham…
Rebuilding the Golden Bird | Mr. Amarnath V T | TEDxKPRCAS — In this TEDx talk, Mr. Amarnath V T reflects on his entrepreneurial journey and the lessons he learned while building Martram's – The South Indian Coffee House. Drawing from experiences of failure, resilience, and…
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How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape — Over the past 150 years, honey bees have become the cornerstone of US agriculture. Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from…
This Stunning African Island Nation Now Offers a ‘Golden Passport’ for $90,000 — If you've ever fantasized about moving off-grid to a remote tropical island, São Tomé and Príncipe's new golden passport might be your ticket.
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” “has confused audiences literally from the…
The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa — The photographer doesn’t sentimentalize her subjects; she pays attention to them.
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean - Longreads — Why it's important to cultivate resilience and curiosity as a writer.
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
Fight Night at the White House — To celebrate his eightieth birthday—and the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth—President Trump invited the country to watch U.F.C. fighters beat one another up.
Lit Hub Daily: June 1, 2026 — “It felt as if Eileen had found a box of pencils they wrote with in the 1970s and asked if I would like to take a look at them.” CAConrad on Eileen Myles’ “Bird Watching.” | Lit Hub Criticism From …
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t — At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia…
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On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times — Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover the light: Learn something. Help someone. Feel it all. We need …
“Laugh? I Thought I’d Die!!”: Richard Yates’s Unpublished Letters — "Here’s this month’s alimony, with all my love."
Why Black Americans Need Reparations Now — As a Haitian American, I have heard stories of resistance from my elders starting at the tender age of three. The accounts were often told through fairy tales, but as I grew older, the message beca…
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy" — Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, whi
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel — I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Today marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of Raymond Chandler, patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction…
An Ecuadorian Fishing Boat Disappears Amid Trump’s Strikes in the Pacific — The President claims to be targeting vessels involved in drug trafficking. Were the fishermen who went missing with the Fiorella collateral damage?
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | Andros Fenollosa — It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your…
“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy — The Apple TV series starring Matthew Rhys follows a winning cast of small-island bureaucrats through a living hell.
What Is a Dickover? — dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newslette
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Interstitium — “The interstitium seems plotless, an entity that, as Auden claimed of poetry, ‘makes nothing happen.’ ”
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…
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What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut” — The following is from Leroy Chiao’s Dinner with an Astronaut, and describes one step in Chiao’s late 1980s journey to becoming astronaut. * What was the astronaut interview like? I flew to Houston …
How a 144-Year Architectural Puzzle Was Solved — Get Nebula for 50% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realengineering Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-why-sagrada-familia-took-144-years-to-finish The bonus Nebula video:…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 22nd — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains — Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”
I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me | Andros Fenollosa — Sometimes the most irrelevant piece of a project becomes its absolute protagonist. My blog has a small social widget floating on one side. You can…
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain — “Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready;…
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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.”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our mixum-gatherum of magnificent reviews this week includes Emma Alpern on Emma Cline’s Switzy, T.M. Brown on Danny McBride’s Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, Sara Collins on Sebastian Barry’s The N…
Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle: 'We are not lonely' — A growing number of what the internet has dubbed "loneliness influencers" are spotlighting solo living without children or friends - and it's spurring debate.
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever — Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother — “It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”
How—and Why—to Cull Your Book Collection — “Books make me so mad.” That’s what my friend, who used to work part-time as a mover, told me when he learned that my husband and I found a new place to live and I had a lot of books that I needed …
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel? — I gave my book to my partner before I gave it to my parents, figuring it was better to conquer one gut-churning fear at a time. I refused to watch him read it, but I was aware when he reached the s…
Awake Awake — All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts. And if our lives in this moment seem flimsy,…
Bilimde Kadın / Women in Science | Dr. Ayça Ergül | TEDxSSHS Youth — Ya sorun kadınların bilim yapamaması değil de, potansiyellerini göstermelerini engelleyen görünmez bariyerlerse? Bu konuşmada Ayça Arslan, bilim yolculuğundan yola çıkarak eşitliğin, cesaretin ve fırsatların…
[Community Help Needed] Google Play: no longer allowing our Open Collective donation link · Issue #21656 · ankidroid/Anki-Android — Last updated: 2026-08-29; Google Ticket Number: #9-2777000041594 TL;DR: What we need From Google: clarification on whether an IRS 501(c)(6)…
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity — “The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch — Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 29 – July 3, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub Histo…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 31st — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
A New Golden Age: Corvette ZR1 vs. Mustang GTD vs. 911 GT3 RS — Much of our content is devoted to celebrating America’s glorious automotive past (see recent stories on the Chrysler C-300, why Packard still matters, and the history of the Offy, one of the most amazing engines…
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention — In 2025, ICE began detaining people at immigration hearings, an unprecedented step. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer shares the story of one detainee whose life was turned upside down.
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 Coast of Everything — “What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…
What Carla Lalli Cooked After Her Divorce — With “Food Is a Feeling,” the cookbook author joins a lineage of writers who have explored the appetites of the newly unmarried.