10 New and Upcoming Thrillers Based on Books
By Hannah White From a haunting adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider, to a modern take on a classic by H.G. Wells, the following is…
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New Shirley Jackson Semi-Biopic Sheds Light on the Writer’s Work and Life
By Hannah White The new Hulu biopic Shirley, based upon the novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell, tells a story loosely based…
Murakami Latitude 00º 00’ 00”
by Ian N Arnof We all know meeting our heroes isn’t a good idea. So many things can go wrong: stress from excitement, nervously speaking…
“Oh! Who Can Ever Be Tired of Bath?”
by Alice Nord Jane Austen is often claimed to have disliked Bath, but to some extent, that is a conflation of her heroine Anne Elliot’s…
Anthony Burgess’ Malayan Trilogy
By James Weitz Anthony Burgess is probably best known for his novel Clockwork Orange, also made into a popular film. But few of his fans…
The Overlooked Origin of Melville’s “Moby Dick Coin”: An Exploration of a Nation’s Capital
By: Matthew Morrow “On its round border it bore the letters, Republica del Ecuador: Quito. So this bright coin came from a country planted in…
The Importance of Mental Health in the Classroom: How Reading and Writing Improves Wellness
By Hannah White In school I remember learning about variables and exponents and how to find the slope of a line. When someone mentions the…
Lo Real Maravilloso: Embracing the Cuban Way of Life
By Kate Bustillos Most of my childhood was spent diving in the Florida Keys. Some of my fondest memories include sun-toasted shoulders, salt-caked hair, and…
Tolkien at Oxford
by Jasmine Revels For the first week of July 2020, I had set aside plans to travel from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to…
Alistair MacLeod’s Cape Breton
By Lawrence Wells With his little dog Blossom at his side, Gil MacLeod, a native of Cape Breton Island who is related to novelist Alistair…