"Perhaps all the best books," wrote Robert Westall in Signal, "start by being written for only one child, and that child very close to you. They start when the child-within-the-author turns to the real child and says, 'Come away with me and I will show y...

University Wire 02-24-2005 (The Observer) (U-WIRE) SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- "The horror, the horror." These famous final words from Joseph Conrad's disturbing novella "Heart of Darkness" are some of the most misunderstood and misquoted in history. In light of multiple appalling human tragedies in...

Byline: MAL VINCENT BY mal vincent THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT THE UNIQUE "Pan's Labyrinth" at first embraces the smoky maze that lies between fantasy and reality, then rejects it in disgust. The film could be labeled a fairy tale for adults ,...