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Wheel of Time Reread: Books 7-9

by Leigh Butler

The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on...


Wheel of Time Reread: Books 5-6

by Leigh Butler

The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on...


Wheel of Time Reread: Books 10-12

by Leigh Butler

The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on...


Wheel of Time Reread: Books 1-4

by Leigh Butler

The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on...


The Awful German Language

by Mark Twain

“The Awful German Language” is a humorous examination of the German language and the frustrations a native English speaker may have when learning it.

 

It is an essay published as Appendix D of “A Tramp...


Legends and Lies

by Dale L. Walker & John Jakes

"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, for example, go down swinging Ol'...


The Calamity Papers

by Dale L. Walker

Spur Award-winning author, Dale L. Walker continues what he started in Legends and Lies, by uncovering the truth around some of the American West's most famous and infamous figures. Leaving no figure sacred...


The Jack Ryan Agenda

by William Terdoslavich

Who is Jack Ryan?

Lowly analyst, James Bondian secret agent, President of the United States?

All of the above?

Or is he just Tom Clancy's mouthpiece for what is right and wrong with politics and policy today?

What...


The End of Harry Potter?

by David Langford

The publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, is probably the most eagerly anticipated event in the history of publishing.  Even the smallest hints from...


Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature

by Kerry M. Hull & Michael D. Carrasco

Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds...


my favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs

by Victoria Miguel

 My favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs  comprises  a list of words, phases, and quotations accompanied by stories, anecdotes, and essays that explore the role of language and quotation as...


Muriel Spark: Time in her Fiction

by Linette Arthurton Bruno

Muriel Spark seems to have seen the world as a stage where all the men and women are merely players having their "moments" on the stage of life. "One's prime is the moment one was born for" she has been known...


Bright Star

by Elido Fazi

On the heels of a renewed global interest in the figure and writing of 19th century British poet John Keats (as attested by Jane Campion’s acclaimed film by the same title), Elido Fazi’s Bright Star retraces...


Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media

by Ishmael Reed

For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men...


Dreams of Justice: Mysteries as Social Documents

by Dick Adler

Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's...


Percival Everett : Transatlantic Readings

by Sous la direction de Claire Maniez et Anne-Laure Tissut (dir.)

This volume gathers some of the fruits of the March 2006 Conference held in Grenoble, France on the work of contemporary American writer Percival Everett. The papers given by both French and American scholars...


The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature

by Jan Susina

In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children's literature. From a study of Carroll's juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations...


Caliban's Voice

by Bill Ashcroft

In Shakespeare's Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:

       "...you taught me language, and my profit on't

        Is, I know how to curse. "

With this statement, he gives voice to an issue...


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

by Matthew Rubery

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice....


J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

by Sarah Graham

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America, generations of readers have identified with the narrator, Holden...