When talking of some artists, it is often hard to define to which art group they belong. Was Freddy Mercury more of a singer or of a songwriter? Would you consider Adriano Celentano an actor or a musician? Were they poems or dramas Shakespeare gave preference to? Most artistic people… Read More →
This week, on December 5th, Joan Didion, literary journalist and novelist, turned 79. One of the greatest American essayists (and memoirists), she walked a long path of life, leaving her reflections, thoughts and experiences within her works. Almost eight decades spent on the Earth…there must have been plenty of raw… Read More →
Tutors just love to give their students assignments of this kind. The reason why is quite simple – when you write an argumentative essay you show not only your knowledge of the subject in question, but your ability to use logic, facts and arguments to prove this or that point… Read More →
On Tuesday, December 3, Maryland writer and professor of mathematics Manil Suri won the Bad Sex Award for his novel “The City of Devi”. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Bad Sex Award is an annual prize, given by Britain’s Literary Review to various writers in order to ”draw attention to the… Read More →
When it comes to the literature and to the arts in general, it is hard to judge, what is beautiful and creative and what is horrible and tasteless. What was popular and admired yesterday, might be called tawdry later. Besides, today’s concepts of art are quite blurred: one person writes… Read More →
The idea of an argumentative essay is quite simple – you have to utilize all the resources at your disposal to persuade the reader that your point of view on a certain topic is correct, logical and more acceptable than any other opinion or a whole range of opinions. Under… Read More →
At the end of August, there appeared a video on YouTube, called “I forgot my phone”. Right now it is extremely popular, it got over 30 million views. It lasts a little more than two minutes. The plot is about a girl, who forgot her phone for a day, and,… Read More →
Superheroes are something more to Americans, than just characters from children’s comic books. They are symbols of the epoch. Every single superhero (as well as every single super villain) was created with a purpose in mind. No matter, how horribly mixed everything is when it comes to the plots of… Read More →
There are lots of books for babies in the bookstores. Fairy tales and funny, yet educational stories about almost everything in the world, are designed in the form of cardboard books with thick pages and rounded corners. Simple plots, lots of pictures – almost all of us read them back… Read More →
Antonio Emilio Leite Couto, the Mozambican poet, novelist and short story writer, has won the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which is also sometimes called “The American Nobel”. He was chosen to get the award by the independent jury of nine international authors. Earlier one of them, Gabriella Ghermandi,… Read More →
