Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted
Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451, is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
Japan’s “Suicide Forest” Victims Deserve More Respect
Japan's Aokigahara Forest has an undue reputation in the Western imagination as a place not necessarily of tragedy, but of allure.
Public Domain Class of 2018
top pick of artists and writers whose works will, on 1st January 2018, enter the public domain in many countries around the world. Of the eleven featured, seven will be…
Cyntoia Brown Case Highlights How Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Prosecuted
Birman says Brown's story is likely returning to the spotlight because more women are feeling compelled to come forward about sexual abuse. He says Brown hopes her case has an…
The Undersea Horror Movies of the Late 1980s
Between January 1989 and the spring of 1990, no fewer than five films all came out with a similar theme – DeepStar Six was first, followed by Leviathan, Lords Of…
Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All of the socioeconomic and cultural fault lines communities would rather paper over…
A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)
A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift. The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle…
Tyree Guyton becomes a star in Philadelphia, Heidelberg undergoes renovation in Detroit
Tyree Guyton finishes a major new work in Philadelphia, "The Times," while the Heidelberg Project undertakes its first major renovation as "Heidelberg 3.0" pushes forward. {read}
Interview: Meg Elison on “Big Girl”
““Big Girl” came to me as a reaction to the fact that women are always the wrong size, no matter where they are in life. There is no way to…
The Today show pushed out talented women. It kept Matt Lauer around for years.
While Curry, Hall, and Morales are the most public examples of women who left their Today jobs while Lauer kept his, it is impossible to know if they are the…