Lesedi Cultural Village, South Africa

Cultural Villages in South Africa

Originally viewed as a way to educate tourists on the multiple peoples and traditions of South Africa, cultural villages may soon be a thing of the past.
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Introducing Cross Reference

The new JSTOR Daily crossword puzzle is here to entertain and educate you.
An illustration from Aleksandr Volkov’s Wizard of the Emerald City

Twin Curtains: Oz and the USSR

Aleksandr Volkov’s The Wizard of the Emerald City reimagined L. Frank Baum’s classic, imbuing the story with a love of labor for readers in the Eastern bloc.
Pliny the Elder

The Numinous World of Pliny the Elder

As a follower of Stoic philosophy, Pliny used sensory experience to try to understand the divine.
Bowie Theater advertisement for double-feature: Teenagers from Outer Space and Gigantis, the Fire Monster, June 26, 1959, Brownwood, TX

The Decades of Double Features

For years, the double feature was a dependable part of the movie-goer’s life. Where did it come from, and where did it go?
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, 1817

The Case of Caspar David Friedrich

Born 250 years ago, Friedrich reimagined landscape painting by portraying the vastness of nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters.
A general view of a 1970s disco showing people dancing, circa 1978.

What’s the Legacy of Disco Music?

If you listen to Blondie, The Police, or the Pretenders, it’s in the beat.
The cover of A Passage to India on top of a 1920s map of India

The Sociopolitical Impact of A Passage to India

E. M. Forster’s novel captured not only the tensions between colonizers and colonized but also the fraught internal politics that shaped India’s fight for independence.
A photograph of a red pill in someone's left palm and a blue pill in his right palm

An Age of Fantasy Politics

Tropes from science fiction and fantasy have become fodder for political rhetoric and action on all sides in the twenty-first century.
Photograph of Mr. Harrison Williams Holding a Camera

Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards

The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.