Today, many hip-hop and rap enthusiasts refer to Kendrick Lamar as the new Kanye West. In other words, as the new god, the new genius of rap. The reasons vary far and wide for why so many attest to this but perhaps the most prevalent is his explication of the black experience. Lamar uses his rap […]
Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a novel that has echoed into the distances. Its implications and its problems are our own. As it were, Baldwin’s world is not so far off from the contemporary. We can see this in a number of popular novels in queer literature today. Yet Baldwin’s scope goes beyond the page and […]
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My Antonia is steeped in tragedy as it relates to immigrants living in the Nebraskan plains. Around each corner readers are greeted with death and trial. We see this particularly in chapter eight when Jim tells the story of Peter and Pavel. Outside of the satisfaction that comes with the drama and mystery of the tale told […]
One scholar in an article about House of Mirth and New York writes it aptly that, “The House of Mirth is a novel of New York Society, the world [Wharton] never completely discarded though she declared she had given it up.” A brief introduction to Edith Wharton’s life compels any reader of her most popular book […]