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

With origins in the theater of the early eighteenth century, “panto” remains a crucial element of the holiday season in Great Britain and Ireland.

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.

Advances in painting in early modern Europe were the product not just of artistic innovation but of changes in mining and manufacturing technology.

A century after the publication of the first Surrealist manifesto, the role played by film in the movement is still unfolding.

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

Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African and Native American descent, gave Cleopatra “white” European features in her 1876 representation of the Egyptian ruler.

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.