Roundup

Why are Victorians the default haunted house, what do ghosts have to do with the imagination, and why do we like to be scared?

Summery poems by Mary Oliver, Matthew Zapruder, and other poets, along with seasonal paintings by Claude Monet and other artists.

Stories by Meg Wolitzer, David Sedaris, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, E. Annie Proulx, Amy Tan, Donna Tartt, Lydia Millet, Lauren Groff, and more.

JSTOR Daily published a whopping 834 stories in 2017—that’s a lot for our small staff. Here are the ...