Leslie Silko (born 1948) is one of the foremost authors to emerge from the Native American literary renaissance of the 1970s. She blends western literary forms with the oral traditions of her Laguna Pueblo heritage to communicate Native Am...

Although it was obvious from her early radio play The Ants (1962) that Caryl Churchill could write good dialogue, she had difficulty translating that talent to a stage where she would be noticed. Nevertheless, Churchill has been writing pl...

Barbara Kingsolver renews the Western literary landscape by debunking the myths of individuality and self-determination. Her heroines lead meaningful lives by relying on compromise and community. Kingsolver's work reflects the real West in...

Ewing v. California, 538 U.S. 11 (2003), is one of two cases upholding a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law against a challenge that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. As in ...

SOURCE: “Re-Reading Women in/to Naguib Mahfouz's Al-Liss wa‘l kilab (The Thief and the Dogs),” in Research in American Literatures, Vol. 28, No. 3, Fall, 1997, pp. 5–16. In the following essay, Hartman analyzes the role of female ch...

At the time of his death in 1915, Rupert Brooke was considered to be England's foremost young poet. A golden-haired, blue-eyed English Adonis, Brooke was the epitome of doomed youth, of the generation that was killed in the trenches of Wor...

For the Marvel comics vigilantees of the same name, see Hangman (Marvel Comics). The Hangman is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Universe and an early enemy of Batman. The killer is featured in the comic book limited series B...

American poet Yolande Cornelia (Nikki) Giovanni, Jr. (born 1943), initially wrote poetry from a revolutionary African American standpoint in the 1960s, but later moved to more traditional themes and softer attitudes. Nikki Giovanni, n&eacu...

Stephen Spender is one of a group of poets— the Auden or Oxford Generation—which also includes Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis. They began having their poetry published in the early 1930s, a decade whose ever-worsening crises&m...

one who has begotten offspring, or one who occupies the role of mother or father. In Western societies, parenthood, with its several obligations, rests strongly on biological relatedness. This is not the case in all societies: in some, a d...

Azar Nafisi , Ph.D. (Persian: آذر نفیسی) (born December 1955 ) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States. Sourced On the one hand, the ruling Islamic regime has succeeded in completely repressing...

Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Historically the period responds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the Early Renaissance in France, and the Plateresq...

Jacques Monod (1910-1976) was a French biologist who discovered messenger RNA, a crucial factor in the functioning of the cell. Jacques Lucien Monod was born in Paris, France, on February 10, 1910. He spent most of his youth in Cannes, in ...

An alchemist is a person who practices alchemy. Alchemist may also refer to:...

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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was perhaps the greatest Spanish poet of the 20th century. The poet known as Pablo Neruda was named Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto at his birth in 1904. He signed his work "Pablo Neruda" (although he did not...

Karen Marie Connelly (born 12 March 1969) is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada....