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The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge remained stubbornly high in August – but not enough to dash hopes for an interest rate cut at next month’s meeting. Personal consumption expenditures inflation rose 2.7% in August over the past 12 months, heating up from 2.6% in July as expected, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday. […]
The Ontario iGaming market has seen an 8% month-on-month increase in cash wagers in August, ahead of sports betting season in the fall. According to data from iGaming Ontario in its monthly reports, the region’s iGaming market picked up speed in August ahead of the sports betting season getting underway throughout September and October. $8.14 […]
US retail sales showed surprising strength during the back-to-school season – a sign that Trump’s tariffs haven’t yet cowed shoppers as the Federal Reserve weighs a decision on cutting rates. Excluding cars, retail sales rose 0.7% in August from the previous month– far above estimates of a 0.4% rise, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. Overall […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1434, Hungarian Renaissance poet Janus Pannonius is born. Our favorite August book covers are all about paintings, text treatments, and more than one dog. | Lit Hub Design On the chilling parallels between genocide in Srebrenica and genocide in Gaza: “When we comb through the […]
First up was Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun, which I read for the September 2nd episode of All the Books. It’s a sapphic romance set in the Camino trail. I enjoyed it, though Here We Go Again is still my favourite. Then I picked up Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology by Angela […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 2006, Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz dies. Polly Atkin on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path. | Lit Hub Memoir Richard Siken talks to Poets.org about his new collection, I Do Know Some Things, […]
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you can take to end book […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born. “Somebody wrote an article online that shit talks Fidel.” Profiling the cyber soldiers who crush internet dissent in Cuba. | Lit Hub Technology Huda Fakhreddine on Paul Celan and the necessity of Gaza to poetry: “If time must […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1901, Australian author and poet Eleanor Dark is born. Writing someone else’s autofiction: how novelist David Levithan fictionalized musician Jens Lekman’s side hustle as a… wedding singer. | Lit Hub Polly Atkin on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1949, writer and RMS Titanic survivor Helen Churchill Candee dies. How transcendental style in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed helps us imagine an unimaginable future in the face of climate catastrophe. | Lit Hub Film “She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have […]
