Here is a film that is generally true to the text, especially in the first half of the action, but there were a couple key difference...

The idea of money, both the unlikely accumulation of it and the nerve racking experience of watching it run out, can be a pretty power...

Yesterday’s post got us thinking about literary lineage. Not influence, mind you, but writers who actually beget other writers. I...

You thought I was done with this theme ? Well, maybe just one more post.  Here are a few literary journeys for those of you with a cartogr...

One last movie-related post before I give it a rest: the obligatory author look-alike post. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris   (winner ...

Sometimes a passage will do nothing for the plot, zip for the growth of the characters, and zilch for conveying a lasting message of any ...

Yesterday we sniffed out the title of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country . Today we do the same for John Steinbeck's The Grape...

Let's face it. Our suggested reading list from yesterday came a little too late to do you any good this weekend. More likely than not it...