[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: US Buddhism, Samuel Beckett, Brexit, seals, letters

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• JSTOR Daily looks at how Buddhism came to the United States, first brought by immigrants and then embraced as an alternative by the avant-garde.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the influence of the French Resistance on the playwriting of Samuel Beckett, himself a member of the underground.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many different metaphors used to try to illuminate Brexit.


• JSTOR Daily notes that seal-watching boat expeditions need to give the seals more privacy, to avoid overstressing them and exposing them to the risks of fatigue.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how letter-writing, as a literary form, has been so strongly associated with women and the feminine.