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Two more words — among all the many — in the English language are required to explain all America’s postmodern woes

Two words — among all the many — in the English language are required to explain all America’s postmodern woes

The plain and simple words of a princess from nine-hundred-plus years ago, which might as well have been written one-thousand-plus years before her or one-thousand-plus…

It is not difficult to see why The Call of the Wild is and has been London’s most read book, and it is not difficult to see why it will remain so for the foreseeable future

It is interesting and feels worthwhile to note that, of the four great Greek playwrights, Aristophanes is clearly the writer — to include thinker — of

Dickens’ Little Dorrit, particularly the tenth chapter of its first part — a chapter titled ‘Containing the whole Science of Government’ — offers the reader a rather clear instance of one of the World Literature’s firmest rules — though it does, admittedly, have its few exceptions. This rule states that…

When all is said and done, the great indictment against the Baby Boomers — it will surely come, as with all comeuppance — will be encapsulated in the fact that

Someone once said that translation is its own form of art, and the principle behind this statement can be easily demonstrated. To do this, we will use the famous words that Louis XIV may or may not — most likely not — have said:

The reader who chiefly knows the King Arthur legend through the work of Thomas Malory — or, worse, through any of the large number of lesser derivatives — does himself a great disservice. The original in this case — as is often the case — is the best, and it does, in fact, feature — in Chretien de Troyes — one who is perhaps the most underrated author in the entirety of the Western Canon.

Now that the twentieth century is twenty-five years in the rear-view mirror, we have crystallized for us the enduring question of the time’s art (post-WII, at least).