The Merchant of Venice: 'nothing short of gripping'
"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman. Torn between his desire to give all ...
“The whole thing became less a book than a cycle of despair.”
Many SFF readers know of Harlan Ellison’s development-hell anthology The Last Dangerous Visions, which was posthumously released to tepid reviews last year. Paul Kincaid’s recent essay delves into the ...
Book Review: ‘The Suicides,’ by Antonio Di Benedetto
During the past 50 years, the work of the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto has found its way to readers like water ...
Talk Is Cheap. It Can Make You Rich.
In “Talk,” Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.
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Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic
Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone ...
Middlebrow: A Letter Written but Not Sent
I ask nothing better than that all reviewers, for ever, and everywhere, should call me a highbrow. I will do my best to ...
The 14 minutes of terror that left three children dead
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access information on a device and to provide personalised ads and content, ad and ...