Last year, publishing power couple Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman acquired beloved online lit mag The Rumpus. Today, the new leaders celebrated the launch of their rebranded site with new essays, fiction, and a fresh design. The Rumpus was founded

Kazuo Ishiguro, the feted Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, has announced his next novel. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger—a spy caper set in the 1930s—will be published by Knopf (US, Canada) and Faber

WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.

An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog.

For more than a century, foreign trips have reflected America's changing role in the world—and presidents' political priorities. The post When Did Presidents Start Traveling Abroad? appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Last night, in a ceremony, the New York Public Library announced the winner of its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by writers 35 and younger. This year’s winner is Carrie R. Moore for Make Your Way Home; she

Picture this: an imposing, three-storey mansion on Calcutta’s tree-lined upscale Southern Avenue. The house and its grounds are surrounded by a fifteen-foot-high wall, topped with glittering shards of glass. To passers-by nothing of the interior is visible, neither the manicured

It was an undeniably awesome weekend. Speaking from a New York angle, it simply couldn’t get better: warm evenings, Pride events galore, and last but not least, the Knicks won. We keep up the good vibes with this week’s selection

Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own experience of giving birth through the

(On June 16, 1976, the youth of Soweto, Johannesburg’s massive Black township, rose up to protest a new rule making Afrikaans the language of instruction in their schools—a language that most did not know well. They were led by Tsietsi

Greg Sarris’s first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first novels by Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine), Sherman Alexie (Reservation

Birth fractured my sense of time—of how time unfolded. I had previously taken for granted that time passed swiftly from one moment to the next. I organized my understanding of my own life according to the idea that time moved

The following is from Leroy Chiao’s Dinner with an Astronaut, and describes one step in Chiao’s late 1980s journey to becoming astronaut. * What was the astronaut interview like? I flew to Houston the next week. It was September. I

1. The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia Photographed by David Jácome The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia, or Las Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas, are a group of Indigenous, Aymara, women mountaineers who climb peaks in Latin America. They do not wear modern mountaineering clothing, preferring instead their traditional costumes including polleras, brightly colored, full, pleated skirts with many under skirts. They do wear helmets and boots and use…

Britain’s textile boom depended on a resource extracted under brutal conditions far from its factories. The post How Sicilian Sulfur Fueled the Industrial Revolution appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Both kratom and one of its active components, 7-OH, have opioid-like effects and are widely available across the US. As health secretary RFK Jr. aims to get 7-OH banned, proponents of both are fighting.

In recent months hackers have attempted to extort money from porn stars with big followings, in some cases filling their feeds with pro-MAGA and crypto content.

A Monster Energy–sponsored MMA show on the White House’s South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar.

An unusual coalition transformed a labor dispute into one of the longest-running consumer protests in US history. The post “Brewed with Blood”: The Coors Beercott of the 1970s appeared first on JSTOR Daily.