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A “For Sale” sign outside a house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes rose 2% in July compared with June to 4.01 million units, on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association […]
Wholesale prices rose at a much hotter-than-expected pace in July — throwing a possible wrench into Wall Street’s growing hopes for a rate cut next month. The Producer Price Index, which measures final demand goods and services prices, jumped 0.9% in July – its biggest monthly gain since June 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics […]
U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day they present Apple’s announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly gain […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1869, George Eliot starts writing Middlemarch. What happened when Piers Gelly tried to replace himself with AI? “Far from being nihilistic, take-no-prisoners cheaters, my students seemed genuinely confused. I could work with confused.” | Lit Hub Technology “If God were like Chekhov, I would be […]
As I promised last update, I finished Boyfriends, Vol. 4 by Refrainbow, which is a graphic novel about a polycule. It’s very cute, and in this volume, one of the characters explores their gender. One of the books I read on the patio this month was Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel. I love […]
August Lane by Regina Black I feel like I’ve been waiting for more stories like this to hit in romance. In it, we meet Black country music star Luke Randall, whose career is on its last leg. He’s stuck performing “Another Love Song,” over and over again, which he hates, but bills need to be […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1856, George Bernard Shaw is born. “The terror of ICE has pushed immigrant families in Ventura County to their deaths in ways fast and slow.” Steven W. Thrasher on what these brutal raids signal for the future. | Lit Hub Politics “Magic and ideology are […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1796, Robert Burns dies. “Infused within that ethos was an understanding that humanity cannot be understood separately from its home, cannot act without acting upon that home.” Dheepa R. Maturi meditates on healing climate grief through ritual and reverence. | Lit Hub Climate Change What […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1374, Italian poet and scholar Petrarch dies. Issa Quincy explains the delightful tension of writing a novel without planning (or even knowing anything). | Lit Hub Craft The Defense Department wants to ban hundreds of books. Here are the weirdest titles. | The Hub “Gaza […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1845, symbolist poet Tristan Corbiere is born. “Gaza has become the world’s conscience—which is not something anybody asked for.” Hala Alyan discusses diaspora, healing, and her memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home. | Lit Hub In Conversation Why Rachel Carson’s relationship with Dorothy Freeman […]
