The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is one book JSTOR Daily readers told us they remember fondly from childhood.
Suggested Readings: Better Burgers, Confusing Giraffes, and Stupid Babies
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week: giraffes, veggie burgers, babies.
Gabriel García Márquez: Off in the Clouds
A 1987 interview with the author of the beloved books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Suggested Readings: Hair Politics, Socialist Women, and Messages in the Stars
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Infertility and The Art of Waiting
Our Friday Reads: a new book by Belle Boggs called The Art of Waiting.
Suggested Readings: Ginseng, New Earth, and Good News about Inequality
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A New Novel Resurrects a Forgotten Author
A new book out this week, and related content you won’t find anywhere else. Young author Forrest Leo‘s ...
Suggested Readings: Hot Olympics, Harlem Politics, and Trump Talk
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Suggested Readings: Ancient Sharks, Fast Runners, and Dirty Water
Our editors pick stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week: microbiomes, Jamaican runners, Greenland sharks.
Colson Whitehead
Colton Whitehead's new novel The Underground Railroad, and how he researches his books.
Suggested Readings: Flossing, Olympic Cities, and the Economics of Slavery
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Russia, China, and Patty Hearst
News books from Han Han, Jeffrey Tobin, Lara Vapnyar, and more with related links to JSTOR.
Suggested Readings: Olympic Bribery, Poetic Profanity, Honey-Seeking Birds
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
The Olympics, Dave Eggers, and Your Idiot Brain
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Racism and Portland, Theory and Food, Bikes and Mathematics
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Hillary Clinton: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Welcome to a new series that brings you original content from individuals in the news.
New International Books
Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Susan B. Anthony on Her Revolutionary Foremothers
Susan B. Anthony discusses how women's rights have evolved in a 1902 North American Review piece, "Woman's Half-Century of Evolution."
Suggested Readings: Ducklings, Turkey, and Rembrandt’s Mirrors
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Joy Williams, Tennessee Williams, and More
Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else. Prose master ...
Suggested Readings: Police Violence, Disclosure Trouble, and Watching Turtles from Space
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Jamaica, Ithaca, and Seinfeldia
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Dating Shows, Card Games, and Massacres
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...