The study of Melville’s novel is enhanced by contextualizing it with primary and secondary sources related to the American sperm whaling industry.

In this edition of Research Rabbit Hole, we dig up scholarship about what one academic calls "the signifying rabbit."

From Bernadette Mayer to Joan Mitchell. Tracing the path from the New York School poets to their painter friends.

Seeing images of mothers in wartime Ukraine sent editor Morgan Godvin down a research rabbit hole.

Author Shena McAuliffe describes how she used JSTOR to research her debut novel, The Good Echo.

While writing her forthcoming book about Polynesia, the author discovered the work of Teuira Henry, a scholar and folklorist who studied ancient Tahiti.

Debut novelist Jessie Chaffee on how she researched her critically-acclaimed new novel Florence in Ecstasy, with a little help from JSTOR.

An interview with Arif Anwar, whose debut novel covers sixty years of Bengali history in five love stories.

Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" is a cultural touchstone. But what about the women behind the "Women," Alcott's real-life sisters on whom she based her characters? An interview with novelist Elise Hooper considers the life of "The Other Alcott."

Author Rachel Kadish tells us about how she used JSTOR to research her fascinating, complex new novel, The Weight of Ink.