Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
The New Yorker 22 Jun 2026

Colson Whitehead’s Big Score

Whitehead, fifty-six, has a reddish-brown complexion, hooded, inquisitive eyes, and a lightly salted mustache-goatee, which, along with his locs, brings to mind mail-order portrai…

The Pied Piper
The New Yorker 22 Jun 2026

The Pied Piper

“Can we get McDonald’s?” a red-haired boy with freckles asked. “No,” the Pied Piper said, between fife puffs. He assumed that would be the end of it, but the other hundred and twe…

No one is self-made
aeon 22 Jun 2026

No one is self-made

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion- by Christine Abigail L TanRead on Aeon

Play Catalogues: Monday, June 22, 2026
The New Yorker 22 Jun 2026

Play Catalogues: Monday, June 22, 2026

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Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026
Lit Hub 22 Jun 2026

Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026

“She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit …