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The Women of the 17th Century in Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

First published in 1697, the eight stories in the collection Histoires ou contes du temps (or The Tales of Mother Goose) by the French...

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Ursula K. Le Guin was a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy, a literary legend that expanded her creativity even to children’s...

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Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies—” (1959) is a science fiction masterpiece dealing with deterministic time travel and a...

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Written and directed by Christopher Nolan in 2000, Memento is a movie that plays with its audience by using a scenic puzzle structure,...

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At the young age of twenty-four, Chris McCandless sought the adventure of a lifetime, which culminated into a trip to the Alaskan...

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As the first published story of William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) non-linearly follows the eponymous character Emily Grierson,...

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Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ 2019 acclaimed debut Heads of the Colored People is the short stories collection where, at one point, two black...

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Ursula K. Le Guin created a body of work that merged her scientific, philosophical interests with her narrative talent, and her 1974...

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TITLE: Memento AUTHOR: Christopher Nolan FORM: Feature Screenplay LOCALE: Los Angeles CIRCA: Modern, Present Day...

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THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD by Mark Z Danielewski. 100 pp. Pantheon Books, 2012. $26. As we have come to expect from Danielewski, a novel (or...