On Anthony the Turk and Grietje, the 17th century couple deserving of reality TV treatment. | Lit Hub History Robert K. Brigham remembers searching for his dad, both abroad and right in front of him. | Lit Hub Memoir Stine

From designer straws to magnet-sealed leather pouches, the platform is awash in products seemingly built for coke—despite Meta’s policies on drug paraphernalia.

Before there was a place called New York, there was Anthony the Turk. Thought to be a Muslim born in Morocco, he possessed more wealth and property than any other non-Native person in the vicinity of what is today New

I finally caught the latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights last week and even though I knew it had been divisive I was still disappointed in a way I hadn’t imagined. I was prepared for the film to be tacky

Our smorgasbord of sumptuous reviews this week includes Hermione Hoby on Harriet Clark’s The Hill, Avi Shlaim on Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong, Parul Sehgal on Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life, Nicolás Medina Mora on Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender, Sophie Gilbert

I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization off a shelf. It was at City Lights Bookstore, in San Francisco.

Once upon a time, you couldn’t tell a story straight. The problem might be that you began as a poet. That focus on a moment, an image, that impulse to seize a scene and squeeze it dry, or spend days

Nothing is more personal than illness and healing. So medical memoirs are not monolithic, and are written by doctors, patients, the loved ones of the sufferers, and others. The eight memorable memoirs here, from the past to the present, the

Marge loved to talk on the phone. I hated it. But I indulged her, calling almost every day for forty years. This phone call was special. It was my adoptive mother’s birthday. Marge was turning ninety-one while in hospice care

The poet Stine An, who is at the very least a finalist for best author/translator photo, is the translator of the recent poetry collection Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung. An received both NEA (rip) and PEN/Heim Translation Grants

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. Braiding Sweetgrass:

For centuries, a mysterious community in southwestern Europe endured extreme discrimination with no clear cause. The post The Forgotten Untouchables of France appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they no longer want to be associated with.

Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.

RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.

Competing expeditions to the North Pole redefined exploration in the early age of aviation. The post Arctic Airships and the Rise of the Technological Explorer appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.

Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.”

The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.

A Civil War–era push for unity helped transform a little-known geographic boundary into a powerful symbol of American identity. The post The Invention of the Continental Divide appeared first on JSTOR Daily.