A turning point in life of the counterculture icon John Lennon arrived with the simple proclamation: “[The Beatles] are more popular than Jesus now”.

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Mary Harron, the director of American Pyscho, has said she remains “mystified” by the enduring idolisation of the film’s psychopathic serial killer Patrick Bateman. At such a critical moment in US ...

“The Road” is not a happy story. Amid the violence and the starvation, Father does his best to give Son the best life he can. He teaches Son what it means to be a “good guy” or a “bad guy.” He does ...

I read it most often. But then “Catcher in the Rye” when I was young was so huge for me. I think that the way he wrote Holden was such an influence on me at such an early stage that I think ...

These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.

Are you fretting about receiving a scathing book review? You're in good company - Trent Dalton, Haruki Murakami, Sally Rooney ...

She recalls a day when her mother and stepfather were fighting, and she walked over to Red Square to read “The Catcher in the Rye.” “I was watching the changing of the Guard outside Lenin ...

O gin a body meet a body, Comin' throu the rye: Gin a body fuck a body, Need a body cry. Comin' thro' the rye, my jo, An' coming' thro' the rye; She fand a staun o' staunin' graith, Comin' thro ...

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...