The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appeared in the Strand magazine this week ...
The English writer Dorothy L. Sayers, for example, explores that idea in "The Mind of the Maker," and a recent favorite of ...
It is almost 100 years since the death of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by suicide in 1927 at the age of 35, so it is timely to ...
David Rieff is a fixture of New York’s woke literary scene, but he’s not afraid to break with the pack.
When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...
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The "dark reflection" trope in storytelling: definition and examples
That’s essentially the idea behind the storytelling trope known as “dark reflection,” a narrative device that goes beyond the fairytale distinction of good vs. evil and becomes more real, about self ...
Anwar Jamal is a veteran poet, critic, and educationist from Multan. His latest book ‘Dhoop Ki Cha’oN’ (The Sun Shade), is a ...
With an epic finale, "Stranger Things" achieves the impossible by giving its massive audience a satisfactory ending ...
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Why We Keep Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”
A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel.
Barnes & Noble, once struggling against Amazon, has rebounded under CEO James Daunt by focusing on local community and the ...
Climate change, A.I., the erasure of democratic norms. Here's how these Latter-day Saints are refusing despair and remaining engaged in a world that sometimes feels like it's ending.
She’s cool. Maybe not red-carpet, TikTok kind of cool. But historically speaking, as one of America’s foremost historians, ...
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