Theodore Dreiser and Carl Reiner. If you don’t see it, I don’t know what to tell you: Zora Neale Hurston and Queen Latifah: the che...

In 1917, H.L.  Mencken published an essay about what he saw as the abject, cultural wasteland of the American South, titled “The Sahar...

Last week we covered first lines that set settings. This week, we pay tribute to the axiomatic opening. Here’s a well-known example th...