Consumerism and The Wizard of Oz
The Smithsonian Institution is running a Kickstarter campaign to restore and preserve Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
El Día de los Muertos in Poetry and Word
Celebrate El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, through the rich literary traditions of our JSTOR poets and writers.
How Have Music Charts Stayed Relevant?
Music charts conferred status on performers and became an arbiter of popularity and a signifier of success.
This Creepy Radio Broadcast Played With the Power of the Medium
Radio dramas became a way for broadcasters to get into the minds of listeners…and to comment on the very influence of radio itself.
Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize Winner
Paul Beatty has become the first American author ever to win the Man Booker Prize. Beatty won the award for his sharp satirical novel The Sellout.
Ten Poems By Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, and became in her short life one of the most influential poets of the era.
The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice.
Reduplication is a widespread linguistic process in which a part or an exact copy of a word is repeated, often for morphological or syntactic reasons (but not always).
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
We asked JSTOR Daily readers what books they remembered most from childhood. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle is one of them.
Viral Videos and the Presidential Campaign
How do viral videos shape a presidential campaign? How do voters learn to “read” the art and advertisements they are seeing? Learn more from our scholars.
In Praise of Small Presses
Writers have long run their own small presses in order to publish voices that might otherwise stay silent.