The Yogurt Shop Murders, The Gilded Age, and The Last of Us are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this month.

If you’re curious about what’s going on in the heads of our Supreme Court’s most regressive and Trump-loving minds, publishing has got you covered. Three books by conservative robesters are on the docket: Basic Books has a book slated for next year by Samuel Alito, Hachette has Brett Kavanaugh under contract, and Amy Coney Barrett

As we’ve covered here, The New York Times has been among the most egregious when it comes to promulgating right-wing Israeli propaganda about the ongoing genocide. As James North reported in Mondoweiss last week, just days after publishing its first meaningful feature acknowledging famine in Gaza, the paper reversed course. Editors issued an equivocation to

Well-researched stories from Ars Technica, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. The post Peacock Feathers, Alien Life, and Pok-ta-Pok appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The perception of weight discrimination shapes both people’s experience of their own weight status and their disability outcomes. The post Weight Discrimination Is a Health Problem appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland gets a 21st century reassessment: “…the plot is set in motion by Reagan’s slashing of the federal government, unwittingly severing millions of connections, setting in motion events beyond anyone’s control, resurrecting the suppressed.” | Lit Hub Criticism Elaine U. Cho explains the process of building a fictional world around real Korean language

2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwaukee in the Great Depression—Hicks McTaggart, “a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye” searches for a missing Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, who

One of the reasons you write a book is to talk about things you would never say out loud. Sometimes those are secret things, like bad feelings, or unpopular opinions, but more often they’re simply impressions too lyrical or banal for normal conversation. For instance, I’d almost never tell anyone how pretty I think a

The first time my mother asked me if I was a lesbian was in reference to my best friend. We had been tethered since we were ten and loved long in ways that, perhaps, suggested a rainbow. Something like sisters. Before we left our hometown, we buried diaries together in the ceiling tiles of our

I was seven years old the first time I learned you must not make water angry. My teacher, Aunt Edwina, was our housekeeper. She’d come from the village to our home in Lagos with no more than a bag of clothes and the pair of slippers that she wore. We were sitting on the dining

What has always interested me about building alternate realities, as a reader and an author, are the questions about access points. How do we tread the line between familiar and unfamiliar? When does the author introduce an element to achieve relatability and when do they do it with the intention of othering the culture? When

The work of writing—or, at least, my writing—often feels unstructured, additional, shoved like packing peanuts around the non-negotiables: my day job, my family, my doctor appointments, trying to stay informed in a chaotic world. It can be difficult to attach dates and figures to creative projects, to give the art we make that digs deep

August is here, and with this new month comes new books to look forward to—and we certainly need things to look forward to. Below, you’ll find a whopping twenty-seven new books to consider in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, spanning everything from the lives of Charlotte Brontë and James Schuyler to Bruce Springsteen albums; poetic odes

Since the religion’s early days, Christian thinkers have treated vegetarianism sometimes as heretical, sometimes as evidence of saintly asceticism. The post Vegetarian Heretics and the Christian Church appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Historians are recovering the overlooked history of North America’s Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake. The post Actual American Rattlesnakes appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

In Mongolia, dogs are close companions to humans and a key part of a cosmology with Buddhist and shamanic influences. But they’re also seen as unclean. The post The Sacred and Profane Dogs of Mongolia appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Squid Game, Sakamoto Days, and Grace and Frankie are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

KPop Demon Hunters, Happy Gilmore 2, and The Old Guard 2 are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Facing pressure from payment processors, the indie game platform delisted many adult titles this week. Itch.io began offering free NSFW content again on Thursday as it looks for new payment options.

The use of blackface may seem out of place in a Japanese-inspired stage production—until you think about the money to be made by dealing in stereotypes. The post Blackface on Stage in “Old Japan” appeared first on JSTOR Daily.