A Chinese-English sign in Beijing, China (Wikimedia Commons). The author clarifies their use of “standard English” as “the most...

Leah Sava Jeffries’ portrayal of Annabeth Chase in Disney+’s  Percy Jackson and the Olympians Reading is imagination at play. Readers...

Image : The Idiot  cover Fyodor Dosteyevsky  didn’t define idiot  the way that we do. An idiot isn’t someone without common sense. It’s...

Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1342 - 1400 If the name of Geoffrey Chaucer is not well known among today’s young readers, it deserves to be. His...

Art Inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray “I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have...

A handy five-paragraph diagram from the University of Waterloo’s Writing and Communication Centre Introduction. Body paragraph 1. Body...

Cartoon image of Tirailleurs Sénégalais during World War I In 2021, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black was awarded the...

Colleen Hoover bookshelf Girl math is when buying iced coffee doesn’t affect my bank account. This handful of crackers and soda is my...

A painting depicting the “Common Man” When we study history, we often hear of great wars between rival cities: Athens against Sparta,...

Cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Next year marks the hundredth anniversary of the publishing of The Great Gatsby, a...

American Novelist Toni Morrison: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/going-to-the-movies-with-toni-morrison The American South...

Image source: oliSUNvia on youtube It seems like every book, TV show, and movie these days is driven by a tragic backstory. What happened...

(Still from the 1990 film adaptation of Misery) Via Talk Film Society If the traditional dynamic of scary man versus pretty girl doesn’t...

Cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot is subtitled A Study on Provincial Life and that is exactly what it is....

Book illustration from The Picture of Dorian Grey Doubling is understood as “...the multiplication of a character…where the resulting...

The Yellow Wallpaper Giving birth is traumatic. Risks of emergency C-sections, vaginal tearing, and many other possibilities can leave...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky It is the mistake of every new generation to assume that they are the first of their kind....

A March 2022 Protest in St. Petersburg, FL over the Passage of HB 1557 In recent years, conservative American ideologues have launched a...

“Still life with a book and oranges” by Paul Signac “The Orange” by Wendy Cope is a short but sweet poem about the simplicities of...

An artistic interpretation based off of a statue of Zeno of Citium, the Father of Stoicism. His philosophy was defined by indifference in...