The second map ever featured on Strange Maps — back in 2006, when it was still a fledgling WordPress blog — was a literary take on Maine. It showed the real and imagined places th…
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the leaders of China and Russia have personally assured him they will not supply weapons to Iran, warning that any future invo…
The U.S. and U.K. are planning to convene a high-level meeting in London next week that will focus on a potential international coalition to protect maritime shipping in the Strai…
Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister, now faces an EU travel ban and asset freeze.
Johanna van Veen’s gothic horror Blood on Her Tongue offers up a classic vampire tale with some modern contemplations. The book follows Lucy Goedhart as she is called to the omino…
The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet.
On how horror shaped Christopher Nolan's masterful epic.
Backing the Iraqi denial of the report, Tom Barrack wrote on X on Friday, “Iraq getting the record straight.”
Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Michael Cunningham’s Unsayable, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Yellow Pine all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Boo…
Gaza families endure scorching summers without refrigerators, struggling to preserve food, medicine and basics.
Malaysia does not have any diplomatic ties with Israel and has long maintained its support for the Palestinian cause.