Does the literary canon speak to our time? Of course it does. Whatever else it is, The Odyssey is an account of post-traumatic stress disorder. Romeo and Juliet offers enduring insights into teen ...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Creativity is being stifled and it takes courage to write about what’s going on but “the troubles of the present time will inspire tremendous works of literature in the future,” ...
Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These ...
Regarding Heather Mac Donald’s “Does Harvard Consider Oscar Wilde ‘Marginalized’?” (op-ed, March 31): Nothing could be more depressing than to see a literature curriculum determined by identity ...
Gisela Delgado, who operated an independent library in one room in her home in 2002 in Havana, Cuba, says George Orwell's book, 1984, is one of the most popular and is almost always checked out. File ...
The first book to turn me on was a Nancy Drew book: The Mystery of the Fire Dragon. As a preteen, without any coherent understanding of my own motivations, I began to seek out those volumes of the ...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in his book Good Business, talks about the importance of “flow” (centeredness) in an effective businessman. He states, “At its most fulfilling a career in business involves a ...
Anyone who has ever crammed for an English lit exam knows that if you've waited until the night before the test, there's no possible way you're going to finish some of literature's most epic novels.
Whether is books that are hundreds of years old, or they are from the last few decades, some amazing movies have been adaptions of the classics. Sometimes the movies play it fairly straightforward, ...
NEW YORK - F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel "The Great Gatsby" celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. While the story of Jay Gatsby is taught in schools across the country, many of its most ...