Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type(hedgehogreview.com)
8 points by prismatic | 1 comments
A Hedgehog Review book review essay by Sam Gee on the religious faith of poet Alfred Tennyson, from the Summer 2026 issue.
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AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess(lrb.co.uk)
6 points by feltsense | 1 comments
A London Review of Books essay by Ian Penman about the novelist and composer Anthony Burgess.
The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)(robotsinplainenglish.com)
61 points by ripe | 16 comments
A blog post on Robots in Plain English recounting how Edgar Allan Poe's story The Gold-Bug introduced the author to cryptography.
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026(theguardian.com)
142 points by sonabinu | 29 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Canadian poet Anne Carson, author of Autobiography of Red, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI(bbc.com)
24 points by harscoat | 33 comments
BBC News article on the controversy in France over an award-winning author accused of using AI to write his work.
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)(short-stories.co)
476 points by askvictor | 213 comments
Full text of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war, set on August 4, 2026.
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf](users.wpi.edu)
407 points by pmg101 | 414 comments
PDF of Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war.
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better(gutenberg.org)
1157 points by JSeiko | 272 comments
Homepage of Project Gutenberg, a volunteer-run library of over 75,000 free public-domain eBooks available in epub and Kindle formats or online.
Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature(standardebooks.org)
351 points by WithinReason | 55 comments
Standard Ebooks blog post announcing 20 notable books entering the US public domain on Public Domain Day 2026, now free to read.
Happy Public Domain Day 2026(publicdomainreview.org)
410 points by apetresc | 83 comments
The Public Domain Review blog post celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, highlighting works and creators entering the public domain on January 1, 2026.
What will enter the public domain in 2026?(publicdomainreview.org)
460 points by herbertl | 325 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown of notable works whose copyrights expire and enter the public domain on January 1, 2026.
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway(apnews.com)
364 points by sohkamyung | 170 comments
AP News article on works entering the US public domain in 2025, including Popeye, Tintin, and novels by Faulkner and Hemingway.
What will enter the public domain in 2025?(publicdomainreview.org)
373 points by Tomte | 297 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown feature highlighting notable works whose copyright expires and that enter the public domain in 2025.
The joy of reading books you don't understand(reactormag.com)
395 points by speckx | 230 comments
A Reactor magazine column by Molly Templeton arguing it should be normal to love books you don't entirely understand.
Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses(standardebooks.org)
334 points by robin_reala | 118 comments
Standard Ebooks' free public-domain ebook edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, marking the project's 1,000th title.
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Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf](sdfo.org)
347 points by xNeil | 241 comments
A PDF copy of Daniel Keyes's science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon," about a man whose intelligence is surgically enhanced.
Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
444 points by axiomdata316 | 155 comments
An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.
Cormac McCarthy has died(nytimes.com)
803 points by benbreen | 330 comments
New York Times obituary reporting the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023).