The Irish novelist known for nailing Millennial relationship psychosis and speaking up about Palestine told The Guardian this morning that she can no longer sell her novels in the United Kingdom. This news follows Rooney’s much-publicized support for Palestine Action,

Frances Benjamin Johnston looked beyond grand estates to document the ordinary buildings that defined American life. The post The Photographer Who Preserved Everyday Architecture appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”

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a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

Vauhini Vara, who has for years been investigating the impact of AI on writing, published a piece in The Atlantic over the weekend claiming that the winner of The Caine Prize used AI to write his story. Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe

The painted white room was born out of an episode of introversion, in an act of creative defiance. On a night in London, a British interior designer and architect named Edward William Godwin holed up in his room to ponder

There is a moment in every young person’s life when they encounter someone who makes them believe that the world can be different—that they can be different—and nothing is ever the same again. For me, that moment came because of

By the end of the Middle Ages, it was a broadly accepted truth that women were running around Europe who had been seduced by Satan and then enabled to perform wicked magic in his stead. Numerous treatise writers began to

Have you ever wondered why your rent is so damn high? Ask any economist or housing expert and they’ll tell you the reason is simple: There’s not enough housing. Too many tenants are competing for too few units, which drives

Among the gifts bestowed by my long relationship with a wild deer, chronicled in Penelope: A Love Story, (Crown) being published October 13, was an opening of the spirit, a freedom from human/animal boundaries. This seems to be recognized by

Literacy is not a deus ex machina descending helpfully from the clouds to usher in a new, more just political order. At the beginning of the twentieth century Germany had been regarded as one of the most literate and civilized

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nonfiction and autofiction have become, alongside poetry, the leading genres of contemporary Ukrainian literature. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, autobiographical approaches and autofiction help emphasize the immediacy of events,

Crystal Lake, Tip Toe, and Carrie are just a few of the shows you should be watching right now.

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

I have been writing a special Tuesday newsletter for paid subscribers for five years now, which means there’s a bunch of really good stuff just kind of hiding in the archives over there. I’ve tagged a lot of of it on the newsletter homepage in categories like “notebooks,” “mixtapes,” “tutorials,” “zines,” “typewriter interviews,” etc. But

Last week’s newsletter began: An out-of-town developer tore a house down at the end of my street and cut down every single tree on the lot. As I watched the big T-Rex excavator claw down the walls, a thought ran through my head: If it can be built, it can be torn down. True of

This was not entirely pre-planned, but: it turns out I’m publishing a typewriter interview with a cartoonist every week of October, and I just now realized they’re all contributors to The New Yorker. The first two are Roz Chast and Paul Noth! (Can you guess the other two?)

Barbarian, The Fly, and Altered States are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

Research on police training finds that realistic simulations may reinforce expectations of violence instead of preventing it. The post What Do Cops Train For? appeared first on JSTOR Daily.