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Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection
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Feminist Bookstore News by the Numbers
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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 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.
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.