Introduction Alice Munro was a Canadian writer. She is known as one of the greatest short-story writers of her time. Her stories often lo...

  THE EVOLUTION OF CINEMA 1. The Beginnings — Before Cinema Cinema did not appear overnight. It grew out of three earlier developments: the ...

Wittgenstein begins his lecture by addressing the difficulties he faces in communicating his thoughts, noting that English is not his nativ...

Edward Bond (1934–) stands as one of the most provocative voices in post-war British theatre. Born into a working-class family in North Lond...

Swimming Chenango Lake  by Charles Tomlinson Winter will bar the swimmer soon.     He reads the water’s autumnal hesitations A wealth of way...

Text Self-Portrait I resemble everyone but myself, and sometimes see in shop-windows, despite the well-known laws of optics, the portrait of...

The poem, "The Child" by Rabindranath Tagore, chronicles a journey from darkness and chaos through doubt, murder, repentance, and ...

The play The Man Who Turned into a Stick is written by the Japanese dramatist Kobo Abe. It is a dark, philosophical exploration set on a ho...

Helen Keller was an American author who was left deaf and blind after an illness in early childhood, living in a state she described as ...

  The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India                     by Gieve Patel    To be no part of this...