Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones is a collection of short stories all designed around a particular theme: reality. More specifically, Borges is interested in a magical realism, one in which he can use his literary power to draw insight from the world, by blurring the lines between fantasy and fact. Throughout the seventeen short stories contained ...
The poetry of e.e. cummings is marked by its distinctive quality of being contemporary, while maintaining a traditional appeal. By doing this, cummings writes poetry that has an appeal to many readers. The same is true for his poem, “i like my body when it is with your body.” The poem utilizes a passion that ...
When you think of Disney you think of cute animated films for the whole family. Sometimes adult theaming makes it way in and I don’t mean humor, I mean things that children should not see, or in one case what adults feel is not politically correct in this era. Some of Disney films have found ...
Memorial Day is about history. As we learned in school, much of civilized history is measured by wars. The best that can be said of war is that it has preserved our freedom when oppressors have sought to dominate us. Valiant people fight these wars for us and Memorial Day is a time to remember ...
Weasels are real, while thoughts are not. That much is clear. After all, what are thoughts? Thoughts themselves do not actually do anything, and they really are not necessary for one to be. Maybe a weasel cannot entertain a complex thought or make a willful choice on how to occupy his time, but does that ...
Push, a debut novel authored by the poet, Sapphire, is written from the viewpoint of an illiterate African-American girl, Precious Jones, whose life is traumatic. With broken English and many misspelled words throughout the novel, Precious refers to herself throughout the book as a “chile”, or child, but lives the life of a woman. She ...
According to a story in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, escaped Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele was passing the time in South America by performing genetic experiments on German settlers in a small town in Brazil. The result, according to a new book Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, an unusual number of ...
Myths are enduring facets of human nature because they allow cultures to bring order to chaos and to understand human behavior and the mysterious workings of the universe. Despite the presence of scientific and psychological explorations that define the Modern world, myths continue to shape our culture and literary art. In order to be more ...
The new stand-alone thriller by David Baldacci, True Blue, is likely to be the beautiful beginning of a new series for this popular writer. Intrigued by a recent interview Baldacci did for Parade Magazine (the Sunday supplement to so many newspapers around the country), he decided to write a book based in part on the ...
The rise of Modernism occurred at the outset of the twentieth century, a time of great upheaval, not only in the arts, but in nearly every aspect of life. The expansion of scientific understanding and revolutionary growth in technology, coupled with incredible economic progress, provided a breeding ground for progressive thought. A new way of ...
