The 2026 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize has been awarded to Rufi Thorpe’s novel Margo’s Got Money Troubles, a funny novel about a dissatisfied and underemployed young woman who decides to keep a baby, let her estranged pro-wrestler

Researchers argue routine smell testing could detect neurodegenerative disease and other health risks years earlier than current exams. The post The Missing Sense in Modern Medicine appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Today, the Women’s Prize Trust announced the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which highlights sixteen novels—including seven debuts, seven American writers, and nine offerings from indie publishers—published in the last year. “Across a longlist that is international in

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A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

It’s a Tuesday night and after work I’m meeting up with six other guys at a nearby British pub for a couple of pints and some fish and chips. But we aren’t gathering to watch Premiere League football, or even

When is an author not an author? The question feels like the lead up to a nerdy joke. But these days, with the looming presence of artificial intelligence, I feel as if I am asking that question every time I

Gisèle Pelicot had resigned herself to a life of quiet victimhood. In France, all victims of sexual violence have the right to anonymity, and she had clung to it for years, her mind made up that she wanted the trial

Charles Shelton, a “home” missionary in the Dakota Territory, penned an article in 1885 for a missions magazine titled “The Indians from a Christian Standpoint.” He hoped to inspire more evangelistic efforts in the West. The nation’s tribes, he warned,

For several years, while I was working on a book about the diary’s role in our lives and culture, I actively looked for “diary stories” and found them, which fueled my hunch that the diary or journal (I use the

This is one of those publishing stories where the author—and in this case the translator too—waited for years, certain that their work deserved a wider audience, and was forced to stand patiently by while other authors and their books found

I slip off my shoes and leave them on the cement as my grandmother Wadia, my mother’s mother, leans into a rough wooden door with all her weight until it opens. She leads me into a dim room, the only

Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading. The post Celebrating Women’s History Month appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity. The post Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

A combination of war alerts, breaking news updates, and algorithmic feeds are trapping users in a threat-monitoring loop.

A dramatic 1836 courtroom escape shows how Black women challenged slave hunters—and Boston’s elite. The post Defying Slave Hunters in Boston’s Courts appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, a patchwork of sanctions, payment failures, and licensing gaps pushes people into piracy networks.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

Soft fiber meets hard infrastructure in a global movement that tests the bounds of public art. The post Knit One, Bomb Two: A Primer on Yarn Bombing appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.