Babar, Pippi Longstocking, Emil and the Detectives, Heidi, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and even Asterix and Obelix or Tintin (comic books...
REBGuest Feb 18, 2016
In a letter to his mother early in the war, war poet Wilfred Owen says, “Do you know what would...
kcecka Feb 3, 2016
In her novel Affinity (1999), Sarah Waters questions and rejects dominant Victorian gender ideology by giving a voice to the...
Morgan R. Muller Nov 4, 2015
The quandary that has constricted Simon Axler's life is perplexing to the point of intellectual exhaustion. It isn't as simple...
****** Jul 31, 2015
Jane Eyre is, pretty indisputably, Charlotte Bronte’s most popular novel. This hallmark of Victorian literature, published under the pseudonym Currer...
Rachel Watson Jul 4, 2015
Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird centers on a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Her father...
Amanda Dominguez-Chio Feb 26, 2015
In 1969, influential experimentalist Alvin Lucier recorded himself saying, among other things, “I am sitting in a room, different from...
Peek 824545301 Feb 25, 2015
Every social movement meant to liberate humanity is constructed on the premise that humans ought to be free; that we...
Matt Phillips Feb 5, 2015
The conversation that began in The Artifice article Fear and Loathing in Israel/Palestine continues with two critical poets; Mahmoud Darwish,...
Jacque Venus Tobias Jan 31, 2015
The enduring strength of Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet in part stems from a resonant argument over the nature of love between two...
Nick Jan 22, 2015
In 2014 several events occurred to provoke conversations into how and why men become abusers. The questions are not new,...
K.W. Colyard Jan 20, 2015
In a recent article in the Evening Standard, David Sexton addressed the new surge in biopic films, which trace the...
Jessica M Farrugia Jan 14, 2015