As Reuters reported yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has enforced new font restrictions in the state department, because Trump and his hogmen continue to keep their eye on what matters to Americans. Under the last administration, the State Department

This week, the internet got a fun little treat when Mad Men, a pinnacle of early prestige TV, landed on HBOMax after a long absence from streaming services. Unfortunately, the new, much-hyped 4K restoration hit our home screens with flaws.

Over the weekend, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) issued a statement condemning the pending merger between two massive media titans: Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery. But laymen may be wondering, why are the writers so upset? We all hate

Like Walt Whitman before them, Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman are reimagining what it means to be a poet in this democratic republic. The post Poetry’s Vital Role in Politics appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Out-of-the-ordinary mental states are the goal of many religious rituals, but they’re also important in “playful” situations like kids’ games and fraternal hazing. The post Playing with Consciousness appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

What happens when Gen Z encounters Catullus’s filthiest poem? “Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.” | Lit Hub Criticism Why novelists should gamble on

In this moment of especially rabid book banning, my high school senior has been translating Catullus in her Advanced Track (AT) Latin class. Catullus’s poems disappeared from the Western canon for centuries (likely because medieval Christian scribes avoided copying lurid

Art and commerce have long been intimate bedfellows, and contemporary publishing presents no particular exception. While—sorry—only a fraction of the books that get published qualify as art, even the ones that emphatically do are also products. Displayed on a shelf.

Thomas Pynchon’s late style, beginning with Inherent Vice (2009) and continuing through Bleeding Edge (2013) to Shadow Ticket (2025), represents a curious and deliberate narrowing of his fictional field. The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason &

I started trash bashing three weeks after it became clear to me that my first novel was not going to sell. I’d tried to be honest with myself, from the moment the manuscript went out on submission, that the odds

My sister and I are little—perhaps six and eight—and we are visiting my mother’s aunt. We sit in her kitchen and in between cleaning meat and asking us about school, she complains about the ghosts that haunt her home, the

First Comes Love is a memoir about my marriage to Tony Heubach, a gay man, chronicling our meeting at Mardi Gras in 1983 and all the adventures and misadventures that followed. We found out Tony was HIV positive early on,

Starting Wednesday, Australia will prohibit kids under 16 from using social platforms. For youth content creators, it means logging off or finding creative ways to post anyway.

Sam Altman’s appearance on The Tonight Show is part of a larger charm offensive currently being waged by the tech establishment.

To Cook a Bear, The Manipulated, and Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

Artist and writer Joshua Citarella explores why corporate platforms corrode democracy—and what a postal-service-style digital commons could do differently. The post The Case for a Public Social Media Platform appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

1. Mistletoe sellers in Paris, 1928 Found here. 2. Collecting Modernist Mailboxes in Paris Photographed by Romain Laprade.

By the fourth century CE, Rome had some 856 privately owned public baths, the grounds of which served as civic gardens adorned with sculptures. The post Bread, Circuses, Baths: Bathing in Rome, the Public Way appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Frankenstein, Troll 2, and A House of Dynamite are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Stranger Things, The Beast in Me, and Last Samurai Standing are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.