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Taylor Swift Isn’t a Tortured Poet
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoESSAY When James Joyce was writing “Ulysses,” his 1922 modernist masterpiece, he is supposed to have declared, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles...
There's A Gilligan's Island Novel That Puts A Dark Spin On The Characters We Love - SlashFilm
/Film· 7 days ago"Gilligan's Wake" is constructed in seven chapters, each one devoted to a different character....
Jordan Kevin Jeffery – Undergraduate Research & Scholarships
UC Berkeley NewsCenter· 1 day agoT.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, the three pillars of Modernism are bound in their use of allusions, an attempt to tie their works to those of the ...
Scandal, hypocrisy and the stigma of divorce make this Irish novel sing
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoDivorce was legalised in the Republic of Ireland in 1996. The Coast Road, Alan Murrin’s first novel,...
UNESCO World Book Day: The books that made us
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDespite the suspense, I couldn’t get with all the narrative detours, and I don't feel the desire to revisit it a third time. Guilty admission: The book...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Miller’s Girl’ on Netflix, an erotic thriller led by Jenna Ortega that's...
Decider· 4 days agoMiller’s Girl (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) casts...
30 inspirational mom quotes to lift up all mothers
TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChristie “At the end of the day, my most important job is still mom-in-chief.” —Michelle Obama “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a...
‘James,’ ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the Triumph of Literary Fan Fiction
New York Times· 7 days ago“Demon Copperhead” takes “David Copperfield,” Charles Dickens’s 1850 chronicle of a young boy’s adventures amid the cruelty and poverty of Victorian England, and transplants it to the rocky ...
Downtown Durham has 5 restaurants that have remained open 20 years. Can you name them?
Raleigh News and Observer via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNinth Street Bakery (1981, but moved downtown in 1992), a wholesale bakery with a cafe out front....
A Coming-of-Age Picture, ‘Art College 1994’ Is as Much About China’s Societal Changes as About...
The New York Sun· 2 days agoWhile 30 years separate “Art College 1994” from the here-and-now, the righteousness with which...