Sinners and Strivers

“People are trapped in History and History is trapped in them” Baldwin’s series of essays in Notes of a Native Son are both bold and b...

Perhaps the essence of white guilt can be summed up by one’s reaction to this novel or one's inability to fully grasp what it means. ...

What a stupid name for this collection of essays by economist Thomas Piketty. One would think it is an entire book of intensely ideologi...

"He settled down to write the big book, the novel that would secure him his place in the modern American canon. Once upon a time, it ha...

Dave Eggers is a Titan within the contemporary lit industry. Chances are you've come across one of his introductions, or a magazine o...

Songwriting is not easy. If anyone could write a good song then we wouldn’t have enough accountants and there would be a lot more mus...

There are plenty of movies I find better than the books they are based off of; the God Father, There Will Be Blood, a Clockwork Orange...