Platonic, The Morning Show, and Chief of War are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

Historians are rethinking the claim that the Panic of 1907 in the United States helped spark the Mexican Revolution. The post Mexico, 1910: An Influential Sneeze or a Home-Grown Revolution? appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. The post Rudeness, Prosecuting Miscarriage, and Wild Orbits appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Writing someone else’s autofiction: how novelist David Levithan fictionalized musician Jens Lekman’s side hustle as a… wedding singer. | Lit Hub Polly Atkin on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path. | Lit Hub Memoir “My mother came back. Which was good, since my father was about done

In 1963, the esteemed author Arthur C. Clarke declared that “a critical reading of science fiction is essential training for anyone wishing to look more than ten years ahead.” Well, I suppose he would, wouldn’t he? It’s difficult to talk about Could Futurism without talking about science fiction, such is their intertwined and codependent nature.

In the back room of a Brooklyn bar, a nonbinary performance artist named Skye is suddenly nervous before their show. Soon, they will pretend to marry their polyamorous partner, who they really do love. The wedding singer, J, reassures them. “It’s just a performance,” J says. “Just like every other wedding,” Skye replies. This scene

Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I live with chronic incurable illness. I lived amongst nature when I became most ill, and I still became more ill. No

“Intercom” My mother came back. Which was good, since my father was about done with me. He had a new house and a new wife. She wanted to install a hot tub. He suggested that my mother might like it if I stayed with her part of the week. She wasn’t happy about it but

As a literary translator who was born in Tokyo, raised in Los Angeles, and now ping-pongs between the two cities, I often find myself describing books (that I neither wrote nor translated) to readers of both English and Japanese. Part of this includes an attempt to offer a cultural snapshot to someone beyond the country

If the birth of history happens when people begin to write things down, then our own journey must start with the first written words in ancient Mesopotamia. It was with these first words that my own path into the field began. I have always been a bit of a nervous wreck, and as an academic

Where Are You Really From, Elaine Hsieh Chou’s stylistically complex story collection, offers intriguing glimpses into the ways in which we have become captive to a habit of continually evaluating our own identities. With glints of sardonic humor and razor-sharp surrealistic details, she reveals the layers of self hiding behind performative masks adopted by a

This is Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts. Robert Frost allegedly said he was not a teacher but an “awakener.” On every episode of this podcast, host Lena Crown speaks with writers, artists, critics, and scholars across generations who have awakened something for one another. We chat about how

A street ran by the house where she was staying in Phoenix, the house where she lived, the house where Eve and Al were paying “good money” for her to be. She didn’t know what street it was or what part of town it was in or whether it followed a river or led to

Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a critical protector of civil liberties. The post The Bill of Rights: Annotated appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Hulu’s Are You My First? joins a string of shows about virgins, as more young people open up about how the gender divide is impacting their sex lives.

The mask, like the veil, is seen by the anxious West as concealing a racialized female subject in need of liberation from a backward culture. The post The Fear of Bare, Naked Ladies’ Faces appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The Civilization video games may not convey actual history very well, but they’ve encouraged generations of young people to learn more about the past. The post History and <i>Civilization</i> appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Bluesky has chosen to block access in the state rather than risk potential fines of up to $10,000 per violation.

Bring your stories and questions on August 28 as we explore our latest investigations into how tech is shaping education today.

Even as Japan courted Western tourists with images of exotic customs and untouched landscapes, the Second Sino-Japanese War raged across East Asia. The post Western Travel Writers or Japanese War Propagandists? appeared first on JSTOR Daily.