In early twentieth-century Indonesia, Chinese-run studios brought modernity into focus. The post The Immigrant Photographers Who Shaped a Nation’s Image appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of

Sixty down, and four remain after yesterday’s voting, and it seems like Lit Hub’s bracket voters have a taste for epics. Each of the final movies are big and high stakes: set in far-off lands, war zones, and the violent

Four films remain in our Best Literary Adaptations bracket! Want to push your favorites to the finals? Get voting. | Lit Hub Was Rasputin a fraud? A mystic? A womanizer? A prophet. Whatever he was, he changed history. | Lit

From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels.

Maria Semple’s Go Gentle, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House, Antony Beevor’s Rasputin, and Lena Dunham’s Famesick all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1.

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I read a finished book or story, I have the pleasure of seeing the writer’s logic, the way the puzzle pieces all fit together. To write a story or

“This man was unique,” a famous Russian writer observed of Rasputin. “One of a kind, like a character out of a novel, he lived in legend, he died in legend, and his memory is cloaked in legend.” Nadezhda Lokhbiskaya, known

L.A. gets rain. People don’t think of the rain in L.A. if they don’t live there. We get a lot in the winter, and the rain in Pasadena near the mountains comes down hard on our little paper-roof stone home

  The following is from Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir by Leise Hook.                         __________________________________ From Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir by Leise Hook. Copyright © 2026. Available

Amidst the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first oral contraceptive in 1960, an ongoing—if surprising—conversation emerged within the Catholic Church about the morality of birth control. Granted, the institutional Church did not endorse contraception; and American Catholic leadership

Just as an acclaimed prose writer/musician/actor isn’t necessarily a strong poet, the leap between novel and short story can be quantum. While both are creative gestures of fiction, the size invariably defines its shape (I say this as a deep

How a traveling landscape painter helped create a homogeneous vision of the British Empire. The post William Hodges and the Art of Empire appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

South Asians are a powerful, visible minority in the Trump administration. They’re also facing a racist backlash, fueled in part by the white nationalist Groyper movement.

After the full movie leaked, animators mourned the chance to release their work as intended. Others feel the leak is justified in light of Paramount’s marketing blunders and association with Trump.

Across the country, impromptu speakers drew crowds and arrests alike, turning public oratory into a defining feature of civic life. The post The Golden Age of the American Soapbox appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The platform’s large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who’ve spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts.

The Boys, The Testaments, and Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 are just a few of the TV shows we’re bingeing this month.

Coachella—and everyone else—is making a big vertical video play. So I watched an entire weekend’s worth of sets only on my phone.

1. Crazy about these Mixed Media Collages Find the designer Anton Elfilter here. Found via Moss & Fog. 2.