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American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) was a major literary force in the late 1950s largely because his two most important novels, prohibited from publication and sale in the United States for many years, tested Federal laws concerning art and pornogra...

Henry Miller was a leading example of a special kind of writer who is essentially seer and prophet, whose immediate ancestor was Rimbaud, and whose leading exponent was D. H. Lawrence. This kind of writer is characterized by his vulnerability to experien...

No American writer in Paris during the thirties captured so completely the experience of his generation as Henry Miller. He made Paris his permanent residence in 1930, and he stayed until 1939, absorbing and celebrating the city which so many American ar...

TRAVELLERS ARE prepared to pay serious money to see the sun go out, and the first decade of the third millennium looks particularly promising for eclipse hunters. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely obscures the sun and casts a dark...

(TROPICO DE CANCER) (DOCU--MEXICO) A Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica A.C. (International sales: Eugenio Polgovsky, Mexico City.) Produced by Eugenio Polgovsky. Executive producers, Angeles Castro Gurria, Hugo Rodriguez. Directed, edited by Eugenio Polgovsky. Camera (color, DV), Polgovsky; music, Cesar Franck; sound,...

In 1967, a few years after he'd won a Supreme Court case over Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press founder Barney Rosset gutted an old warehouse at 196 West Houston Street.He kept the place until 1986, occassionally throwing the kind of party (like the one...

Earth's tropical belt seems to have expanded a couple hundred miles over the past quarter century, which could mean more arid weather for some already dry subtropical regions, new climate research shows.Geographically, the tropical region is a wide swath around Earth's middle stretching from the...

Nelson is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, she analyzes the structure of Tropic of Cancer using Jungian theories of unconscious, primitive archetypes and Erich Neumann's writings on ancient myths about the "primordial Great Mother."

In the following excerpt, Lewis provides an overview of the major themes of Tropic of Cancer.

Wickes is a Belgian-born American critic and educator. In the following excerpt from his study of American expatriate writers of the 1920s and 30s, he discusses the crucial influence that the avant-garde, bohemian atmosphere of Paris had on Miller's artistic growth, and the personal tribulations and friendships which contributed to the genesis of Tropic of Cancer.