The Western-educated Straits Chinese elite of colonial Malaya were among the first writers to produce a local literature in the English language.

It’s become a tradition: the writers and editors at JSTOR Daily share our thoughts on this year's pleasure reading.

Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.

Festive poems from Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Yuki Hartman, Wang Ping, and more.

Bryan Sinche’s Published by the Author explores the resourcefulness of Black writers of the nineteenth century.

Descendants of those trafficked from Southeast Asia to South Africa by the Dutch, Cape Malay Muslims use surviving kietaabs to connect to their heritage.

In writing and life, the Australian Nobel Laureate was ever preoccupied by the search for spiritual meaning and the fraught relationship between God and blundering humanity.

Discover the austere island retreat where Big Brother was born.

Go behind the scenes with our writers as we celebrate JSTOR Daily’s tenth anniversary!

Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?