Eleven Poems for Fall
Cozy up to autumn with verse from Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Rita Dove, and more.
Was Marsden Hartley Really a Great Painter?
Was American painter Marsden Hartley an innovator, or an imitator? Some call him a great artist, while others say he didn't know how to paint.
On The Black Skyscraper: An Interview with Literary Critic Adrienne Brown
Early skyscrapers changed the ways we see race, how we see bodies, how we perceive and make judgments about people in the world.
Four Hard Truths about Fake News
Let me begin with four fake truths that I hold to be self-evident. What follows is their brief ...
The National Book Awards Shortlist
The National Book Awards Shortlist has been announced and wouldn't you know, many of the authors honored have work in JSTOR.
Seven Favorite Flower Poems
Our editors pick flower poems from Poetry magazine, American Poetry Review, and the Kenyon Review.
When King Lear Was a Rom-Com
The King Lear people saw for almost two centuries was very different from Shakespeare's.
E.L. Doctorow On New York
Literary giant E.L. Doctorow died in New York — where he lived his entire life — on 07/21. In a 1995 interview, Doctorow reveals what the city meant to him.
Claudia Rankine Nominated for Poetry and Criticism Awards by National Book Critics Circle
Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, was the first book to be nominated by the National Book Critics Circle for both poetry and criticism.
Two Conversations with Philip Levine
Two conversations with Philip Levine: from Ploughshares (1984) and The Kenyon Review (1999)