The Jackson Family, Sans Un. Rest in peace, Michael Jackson. You’ll be missed for ever.

Revolutionary literature set out against commercial literature. Virginia Woolf versus J.K. Rowling: book fight!

A legend, one of the best entertainers the world has ever known, a fierce and inspiring Dame of Music, and one of the dearest people I have ever idolised, the grande Eartha Kitt, has passed away today. A woman who gave so much and an enchanting force died of colon cancer, at the age of [...]

While reading DeWayne Wickham’s article about Obama’s ridiculous relationship with Rick Warren, “Warren could be Obama’s Booker T. Washington,” I came across a comment that was truthful, smart and spirited. I’ve thought about the same thing before, actually read it as a suggestion in another article (which one I have forgotten), but never has it [...]

Two months after the incident, let’s look back at the 2008 South Ossetia War, all right? A few days after the war, almost every supposed Western politician was shouting into the world that Russia would be blacklisted, forgotten, and omitted from the world loop. Yes, the worlds largest country would be erased from mankind’s consciousness, [...]

Each time I enter Tolstoy’s world of the romantically depressed Anna Arkadyevna, the in-over-his-head Aleksei Kirillovich (Vronsky), the joyful Stepan Arkadyich and the ultimate sweetness Ekaterina Alexandrovna (Kitty), I enter a world I don’t ever want to depart. The happy and fun parts aren’t the only thing capturing my attention, because to me even the [...]