Cabaret’s depiction of a Weimar-era nightclub reveals how easy it is to slip between satire of, indifference to, and complicity with Nazi aesthetics.

This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

This month’s puzzle features a nod to the Second City.

Ostensibly developing on continents apart, the sounds Quebec Disco and Italo Disco exhibited an identifiable sonic kinship.

In 1905, a group of writers and painters gathered in a London home and began a conversation on politics, love, sex, and art that lasted decades.

If you listen to Blondie, The Police, or the Pretenders, it’s in the beat.

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

Why do we love donning period costumes and re-enacting our history through mock battles, pioneer villages, and Renaissance Faires?

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

Enjoy a fresh batch of year-end book reports from all of the readers, writers, and editors at JSTOR Daily!