Idiomanic

Modern artists are often concerned with the creative process itself. Consider Leonard Cohen’s 1961 collection The Spice-Box of Earth, which reflects this concern through

Have you ever wondered who compose junk mail such as chain letters and e-mail surveys? Whoever these people are, they usually don’t have much…

When we think of mummies, we all tend to think of bandage-wrapped Egyptian monsters rising from ancient sarcophaguses and terrorizing overenthusiastic archaeologists. Of course,…

In response to the popular “Child of the eighties” lists floating around the Internet, I present you with my personal “Teen of the nineties”…

“Every kid knows who Freddy is. He’s like Santa Claus or King Kong.” This line from Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) refers, of course,…

Disclaimer: These mock pitches were written before Episode II was released, so they don’t follow its continuity, you big nerd. In the summer of…

An American couple adopts a one-year-old baby from Canada. In the months that follow, they spend all their time trying to teach the baby to say

Written in 1928, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own deals with the relationship between women and literature: how women are perceived in the field, what it means

Aristotle defines the literary genre of tragedy as “an imitation of serious subjects in a grand kind of verse”. According to the Greek philosopher

Words are merely symbols for the notions they designate. Depending on our respective experiences and imagination, they can be interpreted in a number of ways, rendering our individual perspectives