A classic of fantasy-fiction for young adults, Sabriel by Garth Nix begins with promise, but ultimately falters.

Published in 1994, Descartes Error’ is a classic of neuro-psychology. But what errors does Damasio make?

Shapiro links the major political philosophies through the workship ideal. So do people have rights over the products of their efforts?

Literary Resistance in Totalitarian Times.

A doomed attempt to explain the wonderful music of Bryan Senti’s Manu in words.

Let’s discusses the title of this story and Joseph Conrad’s anti-Black racism.

Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone (1965): It’s overly underwhelming.

Conrad’s The N***** of the ‘Narcissus’ brings interpersonal comparisons of merit into question.

Ackroyd’s every sound on this album comes from the piano’s keys and strings.

Robert Jordan’s first book in The Wheel of Time series is a flawed fantasy dependent on strict gender binary.

This story introduces Marlow, the narrator who Conrad will deploy in other texts, including Heart of Darkness.

A primary narrator relays Marlow’s narrative, preparing us for the framing of Marlow’s story in Heart of Darkness.

As noctures are for dusk, audades are for dawn.

Long adopts a minimalist style aspiring to that of Hemingway’s.

Kandel calls for a “new biology of mind” that will tie psychology to neuroscience.

Starring David Boreanaz, SEAL Team is a fictional story about DEVGRU, the highest echelon of US Navy SEALs.

In Book I of The Annals of Arrinor, Ranshaw presents a thinly-veiled Christian allegory.

Shakespeare often collaborated on scripts with other playwrights, and some plays are of disputed authorship or have been lost.

Shakespeare wrote and staged the Histories out of chronological order. This article orders the plays by temporal setting.

The order in which Shakespeare wrote the comedies and romances sheds light on his development as a dramatist.

What were the temporal and geographical settings of Shakespeare’s tragedies?

A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series.

Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers is all about love, music, and free-soloing buildings.

The second and titular book in Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising Sequence adds up to less than hoped for.

A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series.

Robert Jordan’s second book in The Wheel of Time series improves upon the first, but barely.

Third in Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Greenwitch adds little to an already sparse series.

Although she supplies ample evidence to justify a misanthropic stance, Mulligan shows an undiminished optimism and empathy for her characters.

With captivating characters but bland narration, Garcia captures how paradise takes its meaning only in contrast to purgatory and inferno.

More a political treatise than a novel, The Dying Party is a compilation of news headlines masquerading as fiction.

Bob the Wizard hits like a sawed-off double-barrel to the head at close range: it drains your health bar rather quickly.

Something like HBO’s Succession set in a magical world, Magelord depicts one family’s dramas prior to a major transition of power.

A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series.

In Robert Jordan’s third book of The Wheel of Time series, the Black Ajah are flat and thin as the wasted sheets of paper.

Even with the generalized criticism, Castle’ Guide is an excellent reference that will most benefit newcomers to theory and grad students.

While its transformative imagery is its greatest strength, The Hobbit also deals with merit and greed, specifically concerning the division of Smaug’s plunder.

Whereas some readers find subtlety and nuance in A Pale View of Hills, I find a ruse.

Even in this first edition, published before the ’08 Financial Crisis, Passmore identifies a shift in young Western people towards the far right.

Achilleus’s indignation springs from the notion that people have rights over the products of their labour.

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