First written in 1938 and revised and enlarged in 1954, Love in the Western World is ...
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By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has declared same-sex marriage to be legal ...
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It might be a pointless exercise to compare the literatures of two nations separated by mo...
The twenty-five tales of Freddy the Pig, published 1927-1958, constitute one of the cla...
The 1950s film version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds is the best version of al...
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January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...
One of the great achievements in European popular fiction during the twentieth century was...
I've just discovered that several (and possibly all) episodes of the great 1970s TV series...
The word utopia literally means "no place" in the original Greek. Thomas More named his f...
This Christmas season (known to Christians as Advent) has brought the most Christmas progr...
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition is a collection of twelve p...
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is one of the great masters of the cinema, yet his reput...
As I've noted earlier on this site, pulp fiction was quite unlike what people commonly thi...
October is, of course, a good month to read horror fiction, given the obvious connection t...
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Multiculturalism is a product of relativism; the only way you can believe that all culture...
Suppose you're a conservative activist stranded in the middle of the desert, surrounded by...
A popular film genre that has seldom received much respectful attention from critics and s...
In an essay that more properly belongs in the newspaper's "Duh!" section (which doesn't ...
The NY Post recently published a list of the 10 greatest TV comedies set in New York City....
George Strait, now on his retirement tour, is one of the greats of country music. Combinin...
Every year, the Oxford American literary magazine dedicates an issue to exploring the mu...
FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART AND EXCELLENCE — By Alexan...
By Larry Kaufmann Probably no greatly popular American singer had less desire to be a sup...
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