John Millinton Synge and the Aran Isles
by Gary Lehmann John Millington Synge, later author of The Playboy of the Western World, started out writing competent but prosaic works. Then he met with…
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Short Period of My Life’s Happiness at Charmettes
by Dan Kane and Shawn Clankie The Savoie denotes both a region and province in southeastern France, comprising roughly that area between Geneva (and the…
Ovid in Exile
by James A. Clapp That the avid traveler is often an avid reader (and/or moviegoer) is frequently noted. It is an observation that surely applies to…
A Week in Provence, Reflections upon Peter Mayles’ A Year in Provence
by David Sclar Anyone who has read Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence will appreciate the anticipation that consumed me when I had the opportunity…
Lorca’s Deep Song
by Annette Aryanpour More than sixty years ago one of the greatest poets of this century died. He was also the most famous victim of…
The Strange Case Of The Jack Kerouac Estate
Jack Kerouac is known in the popular imagination as the harbinger of the Beat movement – a free-wheeling spirit who “hit the road” in search…
Go to Know: Yeats’ Ireland
“You got to go there, to know there”, wrote Zora Neale Hurston. Although this African-American writer does not automatically evoke Ireland’s patron-poet, Hurston’s words are…
Takashi Atoda in Tokyo
by Rob Keast A reader visits the setting of a short story, not only because it is there but because he is there. Some points…
John Steinbeck’s California
“I think I would like to write the story of this whole valley, of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches…
Teaching John Steinbeck
By Natanya Silverman The novels of John Steinbeck inhabit many bookshelves in classrooms across the United States. High school English classes spend weeks exploring the…