The Ultimate Fighting Championship Goes to Washington

By Stephanie Cuepo WobbyJune 16, 2026

“UFC Freedom 250 was a spectacle—a ‘gimmick,’ as Trump called it.”

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Announcing Our Summer Issue

Featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.

Emily StokesJun 16, 2026

Literary Hub

Lit Hub Daily: June 17, 2026

Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit Hub Craft Aaron Boehmer considers the future of ethnic studies and academia in crisis: “While no protest, demonstration, or amount of organizing can

Lit Hub DailyJun 17, 2026

Literary Hub

Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month.

It’s pride month! What better time to go spelunking in the archive, so as to situate the current moment, or thank an ancestor? I’ve been on a research kick, personally. Thanks to round-ups like this one from Lindsy Van Gelder—and

Brittany AllenJun 15, 2026

Public Books

Who Benefits from Distorting American Studies?

“There is a movement undermining, constraining, and eradicating those who document, understand, and name the experiences of systematically marginalized communities in US history.” The post Who Benefits from Distorting American Studies? appeared first on Public Books.

Morgan BarryJun 17, 2026

The Public Domain Review

Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds

Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this “lost world” novel, finding a work as interested in cutting-edge science as it was in paying dues to its generic precursors.

Jun 17, 2026

Artforum

From the Archive: Archigram’s Obsolete Futurism

When one reassesses the architectural designs of the technologically obsessed, postmodernist Archigram Collective (1961–74), they encounter a brand of space-age Futurism that feels as cutting-edge and charmingly obsolete as a pulpy sci-fi novel. In an essay for the October 1998 issue of Artforum, architect Joel Sanders evaluates the significance of the group’s pre-digital forays into virtual […]

Theo BelciJun 15, 2026