Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good

Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations. Though her work is famously cerebral—and, well, literary—this is far from Virginia’s first celluloid rodeo.

For nearly a century, Americans argued over how to honor George Washington. The monument they built reflected those debates. The post Why the Washington Monument Looks the Way It Does appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are painting prescription stimulants in a negative light while promoting supplements for ADHD that lack evidence.

D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelman discuss the literary world’s unacknowledged class system. | Lit Hub In Conversation On that time Johnny Cash almost started a riot at California’s most infamous prison. | Lit Hub Music Why

“I think this is a very important thing: to give a man some hope in prison, to give a man some encouragement to be a better citizen while he is there and if he is a better citizen, while he

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” “has confused audiences literally from the beginning,” David Orr has written. In the spring of 1915, Frost sent an envelope to Edward

When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we spoke at home—after English

As a Haitian American, I have heard stories of resistance from my elders starting at the tender age of three. The accounts were often told through fairy tales, but as I grew older, the message became more direct. By late

I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement, in the 1970s. We knew that sexism was a problem—but we were solving it. My father, the center of our household, encouraged me to become

It seems impossible, but the lanky Petco cashier with the shiny blond pompadour insists that he’s telling the truth. “A shortage?” I ask. He nods. “All of them?” He nods again. I look at his name tag with the idea

“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.” Rebecca Solnit on the Odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | Lit Hub Criticism From Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to Brad Lander, Steven W. Thrasher examines the

Over the last several years, the Imax format has taken on a few different forms—but only a few dozen theaters are capable of screening it in its full glory.

I’ve been trying to go about the summer Friday newsletters with a sense of lightness, the way I make a collage out of scraps in my drawer — I pull out what I’ve saved, push it around until it makes sense (or nonsense), and glue it down. (Hit send.) Last Friday’s letter was called “The

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of getting to chat about Don’t Call It Art with art coach Beth Pickens. I started off the conversation by describing the dream I had after seeing Bob Dylan live: You can watch the whole thing here.

My most recent typewriter interview — a big hit with readers! — is with author and illustrator Mark Haddon, who said it was the most enjoyable interview he’s ever done and bestowed upon me my new title, “Prince of Analogue.”

In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality. The post Born Without a Country appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

Can fruit flies have dialects? Can dung beetles navigate by the stars? Find surprising answers in this collection of stories about bugs and people. The post The Secret Lives of Insects appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.