George Orwell, in his essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish," first published in Horizon in October 1944, applied what he described as a "sociological" reading to E. W. Hornung's "amateur cracksman" storie...
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Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, based on Mr. Miller's series of graphic novels, makes it look like we're at the end of Western civilization as we know it. One has only to itemize its ...
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