Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Tall Tale.
As the USA rolled westwards, the tall tale, a species of folk mischief, had emerged as the acutest cultural expression …
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On the Motif of Hell in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.
[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …
On Autobiography in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ernest Hemingway had started writing the text that would become Islands in the Stream in 1946. …
Book Review: Catch-22.
For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic will make death come alive again. With the escalating fatalities and the decimation of …
World War Correspondents: Tietjens, Crouchback and Yossarian.
[When I began researching “World War Correspondents” in 2013, it was with the intention of writing a series of articles …
The Death of Kid Sampson (Illustration to Catch-22).
I have a couple of big posts queued up about Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961). One is an article about “Great …
Christmas with Washington Irving.
Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …
What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?
[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe.
It is a typical afternoon at the Edinburgh Fringe. I go to the Summerhall to check out the new play …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (49).
As she knelt down, the border of her garment was dipped into the pool; she laid her forehead on the …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (48).
“Come, my bride!” said those pale lips, “the hearse is ready. The sexton stands waiting for us at the door …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (47).
Had a wanderer, bewildered in the melancholy forest, heard their mirth, and stolen a half-affrighted glance, he might have fancied …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Great Gatsby.
The voice of Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, has always played in …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (46).
Up with your nimble spirits, ye morrice-dancers, green-men, and glee-maidens, bears and wolves, and horned gentlemen! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The May-Pole …
Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)
Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …
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