Per a 404 Media report published this morning, Amazon, that evil empire, “is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.” This news follows slow-creeping revelations that other AI companies have

A neighborhood beyond the Tiber became home to generations of Jewish and Syrian migrants who reshaped the imperial capital. The post Ancient Rome: A City of Immigrants appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

What did Jodi Picoult decide she needed to commemorate turning 60 and writing 30 novels? A tattoo. | Lit Hub Craft Steven W. Thrasher explores what we can learn about solidarity from Greg Tate’s recently reissued Flyboy in the Buttermilk.

When I translated Walden in 2012, I was not a Thoreau scholar. I was an immigrant chasing the American dream: two kids, two cars, two houses, a long commute to a corporate job. Translating Walden became my escape hatch. While

I was fourteen when my interest in history began. I placed third in Buffalo’s citywide Richmond Speaking Contest. All three of us winners received certificates for book purchases, and I bought a picture book about Stalin’s regime. I became so

I didn’t care about turning forty. When fifty rolled around, I celebrated. At 55, my neighbor took a picture of me under a matching speed limit sign and we both laughed. Then came sixty. Several months before my birthday I

Today, the terms “obese” and “overweight” have precise medical definitions based on how much someone weighs relative to their height, but this is a modern formulation. Until recently, people knew their height but almost no one could measure their weight,

From long before the time of Homer until the recent past—and in the present in some traditional societies—turning an amorphous mass of wool into thread via spinning and then weaving that into fabric was both an important skill and a

Praise be to Akhenaten, to Cleopatra, to Ra, Sun Ra, Iris, Osiris and all the ancestors and ancestresses: Flyboy in the Buttermilk, by the late, great Greg Tate—that posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winning polymorphous polymath, the heppest cat to ever done bee

Perhaps you’ve recently been feeling a call to reread Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King’s Men. It could be because our world is a disturbing mirror to that dystopian tale of populism. It could be because we

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, in Russian-controlled Ukraine, in an area that had once been Poland, as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. When he was eleven, both his parents died from

A new Apple documentary explores the life of Aziz “Zyzz” Shavershian, who rocketed to internet fame in an age before influencers, then died at age 22 in 2011.

Avatar Aang, Heartstopper Forever, and Exit 8 are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

Turn a research question into an effective search strategy that delivers more useful scholarly results. The post How to Search JSTOR with Keywords appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”

Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.

Letters to lovers, siblings, artists, gods, and enemies by Diane Wakoski, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kazim Ali, June Jordan, and more. The post Dear Reader: 10 Epistolary Poems by Contemporary Writers appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Debate over the true villain in Obsession is raging again after Universal Studios announced the movie’s female lead will be featured at an upcoming Halloween event.

Created after the Big Dig, the Rose Kennedy Greenway shows how cities attempt to heal the scars of highway construction. The post How the Big Dig Changed Boston’s Landscape appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.