Raritania

While there has been argument over the matter of who said it first, and indeed the remark may be more strongly associated with figures other...

In discussing Theodore Dreiser's Frank Cowperwood novels it seems common to refer to them as a trilogy (the "Trilogy of Desire...

In the course of Theodore Dreiser's The Titan the protagonist Frank Cowperwood, fighting to establish his streetcar monopoly in Chicago...

In reading Theodore Dreiser's Frank Cowperwood novels, especially after having read his memoir A Book About Myself , I instantly found m...

Theodore Dreiser, after having begun the story of Frank Cowperwood in 1912's The Financier , continued it in 1914's The Titan --orig...

I first picked up Theodore Dreiser's The Financier just after finishing his most celebrated work, An American Tragedy , precisely becau...

Remarking the anniversary of the signing of the Versailles Treaty in the weeks after Dunkirk and the fall of France and on the eve of what w...

The deficiencies of Robert Ludlum's prose as measured by the conventional criteria of "good style" are of course notoriously l...

The implicit assumption of the phenomenon we call "self-help" is that people, as individuals, are the causes of their own problem...

It was in 2009 that the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded the final list of nominations for Best Picture from th...