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Suggested Readings: Signing Petitions, Drinking, and Falling Asleep

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, the first African American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born to working-class ...
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Suggested Readings: Muslim Ban, Quantified Lives, and Kratom Therapy

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JSTOR Daily Friday Reads

George Orwell’s 1984

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 finds itself at the top of the best-seller lists this week, the first of Trump's presidency.
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Suggested Readings: Crowd Numbers, Baby Jokes, Magic Blood

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Extra Credit Suggested Readings from JSTOR Daily Editors

Suggested Readings: Kompromat, Computers as Managers, and Deadly Molasses

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Literature as Resistance

What does it mean to have a literature of resistance?
Norwegian librarians

Wikipedia: Go Forth and Cite!

Remember what it was like to put together a school report with only the encyclopedia volumes you could find ...
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Suggested Readings: Tomboys, Rumi, and Why Kids Are Like Aristotle

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JSTOR Daily Friday Reads

Roxane Gay

An interview with award-winning author Roxane Gay, plus one of her short stories.
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Suggested Readings: Celebrating 2016, Aging Well, and Growing New Ears

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JSTOR Daily Friday Reads

The Revelatory Rabbits of Watership Down

On Christmas Eve we lost Richard Adams, the British writer whose 1972 novel Watership Down became one of the bestselling children’s books of all time.
Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin was groundbreaking astrophysicist who discovered evidence of dark matter.
Extra Credit Suggested Readings from JSTOR Daily Editors

Suggested Readings: Inuit Genes, Depression Feasts, Hacked Elections

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JSTOR Daily Friday Reads

Avi

The beloved and prolific children's literature author Avi was born on December 23, 1937.
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Suggested Readings: Fascism, Crime Forecasting, and Old Saint Nick

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Night Before Christmas

10 Classic Christmas Stories

We've gathered up some of our favorite literary takes on Christmas.
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Suggested Readings: Dinosaur Feathers, Filthy Showerheads, and the American Dream

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a stack of colorful books in a library

Best Books Lists

Who invented the "Best Books" list?
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Suggested Readings: Immigration Raids, Muslim Cool, and Life as a Bee

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Extra Credit Suggested Readings from JSTOR Daily Editors

Suggested Readings: Remembering Castro, Linguistics of Racism, Outrunning Alcohol

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Suggested Readings: Climate Change Now, Wyoming’s Power, and Fighting Zika

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

We asked JSTOR Daily readers what books and authors they remembered most from childhood. Here is one of ...
Gwen Ifill

R.I.P. Gwen Ifill, Pioneering Journalist

Pioneering journalist Gwen Ifill has died. Her career in a white and male-dominated industry inspired many to the profession.
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Suggested Readings: Election Surprise, Historical Echoes, Archaeological Treasure

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