(Greek. ‘Revelation’). Revelations of the end of time and the last judgement. Apocalyptic literature deals with such subjects as *heaven, the future of this world, the activities of *angels and the *soul’s future existence. Most...

Apocalypse, as the name of a literary genre, is derived from the Apocalypse of John, or Book of Revelation, in the New Testament. The word itself means "revelation," but it is reserved for revelations of a particular kind: mysterious...

Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις -translit. apoca'lipsis, meaning literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often...

Iraq: Democratic leaders are making it increasingly clear they'll let nothing prevent the U.S. from losing the war against al-Qaida and other terrorists in Iraq -- not even victory. For them, defeat in Iraq cannot come too soon. They are that convinced a failed war...

Helen Newman Memo to all plagiarists, fabricators, jailhouse-memoirists and other literary charlatans: This is a story about a writer. Helen Newman, 29, lives at her mother's place in Brooklyn. She teaches English at a cram school for Korean kids, sometimes she also assists an...

Nancy Weekly, essayist for the catalog accompanying an exhibition of Charles Burchfield’s watercolors at DC Moore Gallery, refers to the painter’s landscapes as an “amalgamation of pantheistic, transcendental and religious principles.” This characterization places Burchfield (1893–1967) within the American tradition of divining a spiritual or...

First off, there are more characters to choose from, good and evil, four player online play, and a lot more interactivity. The X-Men and the Magneto-lead Brotherhood of Evil must unite to stop Apocalypse from destroying everything in his path. Can the X-Men and the...