People of Note: Author Brian John Skillen
It is often a strange and winding path… one takes to becoming an author and for Brian John Skillen whose first book The Way:…
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Book Review: The Way Through a Field of Stars by Brian John Skillen
To focus a novel on the act of walking would seem an incredibly risky endeavour. Walking is, after all, tremendously dull. Or at least…
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Book Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Reading Michelle Obama’s biography left me feeling like I’d been invited into her home or watched her being interviewed by Oprah. As I put…
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Offsides & Out of Bounds, Thoughts on Athletes and Activism: We Matter by Etan Thomas
“Shut up and dribble,” was the response of television and radio talk show host Laura Ingraham to Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James for “talking politics”…
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“The Blackout, A Novel Inspired by True Events” by Louise Arseneault
The Blackout: A Novel Inspired by True Events Louise was fourteen when the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the ninth-largest in the world, affected an estimated 55 million people across…
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Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Reception Upon its release, the St Jame’s Gazette questioned why Wilde would put his name to “so stupid and vulgar a piece of work”….
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Film Review | The Happy Prince – or The End of Oscar Wilde
Taking its name from Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales, the movie The Happy Prince tells of the heart-breaking final years of…
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Book Review: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
(Technically a play review, but it’s a review of the script, so ‘book’ makes more sense) Frivolous Brilliance Simply put, The Importance of…
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#Aestheticism: The Life of Oscar Wilde
While by no means exclusive to writers, nor universal to them – and without intending to paint a sombre brush over this article –…
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Book Review: Exploring 19th-Century Life | Travels with Henry James
Before He Was the Henry James of Literature While most know him as the brilliant novelist behind works such as The Portrait of a…
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Book Review | Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan by Soniah Kamal
Unmarriageable: A Book Based on a Book It is a strange thing, reviewing a book based on a book of which one is very…
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Book Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Reading Michelle Obama’s biography left me feeling like I’d been invited into her home or watched her being interviewed by Oprah. As I put…
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