A game table by David Roentgen

Editors’ Picks of 2024

Magical furniture, toxic gardens, and Scottish hideaways: we’ve gathered our favorite JSTOR Daily stories published this year.
Grand Central terminal clock

Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time.

Feminist Bookstore News by the Numbers

Now part of Reveal Digital, Feminist Bookstore News was a vital source of information (and gossip) amid a flourishing in publishing fifty years ago.
A lion tamer in Ancient Rome

Our Most Popular Stories of 2024

The artifacts of ancient technologies, the allure of rebel science, and many, many ghosts.
Painting of Song Ong Siang by J. Wentscher, 1936

Writing a “Different Type of Chinese” into Being

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

What We’re Reading 2024

It’s become a tradition: the writers and editors at JSTOR Daily share our thoughts on this year's pleasure reading.
A clown and a harlequin are amongst the characters portrayed by King William IV (1765 - 1837), Lord Broughan, Lord Gray and Lord Eldon at a royal Christmas pantomime.

A Holiday Pantomime

With origins in the theater of the early eighteenth century, “panto” remains a crucial element of the holiday season in Great Britain and Ireland.
Alastair Sim as Scrooge in the film of the same name, adapted from Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol

Annotations: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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.
From the cover of Issue 9 of The World, December 1967

Merry Christmas from The World

Festive poems from Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Yuki Hartman, Wang Ping, and more.
From the cover of Published by the Author

Self-Publishing and the Black American Narrative

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