Children’s books introduced Vietnamese refugees to US readers, often simplifying their histories and experiences. The post How 1980s Children’s Books Framed Vietnamese Refugees appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Here’s a fun fact to celebrate Angela Carter’s birthday: the beloved feminist icon did not care for literary tote saint Joan Didion. Need some proof? In 1986, Angela Carter sat down for a phone interview with Rosemary Carroll for BOMB.

Well, hello there! Welcome back to another intriguing installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? Yes, you heard right: this is the place where all your dreams come true (if your dream is to read

When Stick Figure’s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes.

Sarah Moroz considers “the poignant sibling renaissance” of Ocean Vuong’s first photography exhibition.  | Lit Hub Photography Davin Malasarn and Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez talk about writing books that explore questions of family, queer identity, and the violence of conversion therapy.

Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it.

I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. And of course, in my besotted state of lust, I studied that book in earnest. However, as it

Our favorite criticism of the week includes James Wood on Harriet Clark’s The Hill, Laura Miller on James Lasdun’s The Family Man, Sam Worley on Douglas Stuart’s John of John, Colin Grant on Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker, and Adam Begley

When I finished work on my new book, The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult, I assumed I wouldn’t read anything more about cults for a good long while to come. I’d loved writing about the

“Unlike writing, which is a vocation mired with maybes, the camera, for all of its complex mechanisms, can only say yes,” Ocean Vuong wrote. “Photography is, for me, a medium of unanimous affirmation.” The embrace of such affirmation is made

In March, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy discriminated against therapist Kaley Chiles based on first amendment rights. The case reminded us that such disproven practices are still prevalent throughout the country. Despite bans meant to

I was assessing my face against my mother’s from my earliest memories, or rather the world around me was, and it was consistently communicating—in a quizzical glance or a compliment withheld or a hostile blank face—that I was falling short,

Sitting outside in America is an Eileen Myles pursuit. Every time I do it I think of an Eileen Myles poem—from throwing open “all the doors in my home” because “There’s a pulse outside I want to hear” in “Immanence”

An artist’s work is traced through memory, stewardship, and decades of care. The post Preserving the Art of Ed Aulerich-Sugai appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts.

Author David Epstein makes his public drawing debut in the latest typewriter interview!

The snails have returned! And I shared some recent snail mail in the newsletter.

The voice actors from the original film have returned for the sequel—and not everyone is happy about it.

The porn giant blocked its content from new UK users in February but says device-based age verification is more secure than third-party sites.