Fanfiction is fiction written by fans of something, be it a book, a movie, a TV series or, frankly, anything you can imagine. In this or that form it existed for a long time, although without getting prominent due to rarely seeing publishing. But with the advent of the Internet… Read More →
Here is a list of some of the most well-known memoirs for you to read and think about. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory Nabokov may be a Russian-speaking writer originally, but it is one of the things that makes him special – he writes in English, and his mastery of… Read More →
Walter Skeat was one of those wonderful people who tried to make everyone’s life simpler. He did it in his very own way – by proposing a Spelling Reform in 1906. He was not the pioneer – the first request for making the spelling easier was made in 1881. Some… Read More →
You know him better than any of his relatives or friends. You are aware of every his feeling and thought, not a single trait of his personality goes past you. You saw him at his best and at his worst and you love him passionately with your whole heart. There… Read More →
How do you get teens thinking about fundamental issues of life? Experience shows that plain old rhetoric does little good; children (and, as a matter of fact, every one of us) should put their minds to the problem in question and arrive at a viewpoint as a result of conscious… Read More →
For some reason, people like watching movies and reading books about their own life. Not their own in particular, that is, but the life of their own social or professional group – programmers like movies about programmers, teachers like movies about teachers and so on. Sometimes they like them because… Read More →
Any really old library accumulates many weird books in the course of its existence, and weird stories connected with them as well. Harvard University’s library is no exception, and the most interesting of all these stories of probably a rumor that three books at its disposal are bound in actual… Read More →
Although the infamous Duke University lacrosse scandal is long gone and mostly forgotten, there are still people interested in it and people ready to use this interest. Among them – William D. Cohan, the author of a new and very thorough retelling (it cannot be called investigation per se) of… Read More →
It is not easy to be a student – constant assignments, exams and lectures take a great toll on your ability to perceive and process information. While some problems can be solved by a bit of self-discipline and time management, if the workload becomes too strenuous, you have to use… Read More →
Peter Matthiessen, a popular author well-known both for his fiction and non-fiction, died on April 5 in his home in Sagaponack, N.Y., at the age of 86. The cause of death, according to his son Alex, was leukemia – he was diagnosed with it about a year ago. The admirers… Read More →
