opinions on how Winthrops visions America in "A Model of Christian Charity" by John Winthrop

EM Forsters short story The Machine Stops was published in the 1909 edition of the Oxford & Cambridge Review and was prescient in terms of thinking about the downsides of the internet - well before the internet was invented - the circulation of gossip and of third-hand hearsay masquerading as inf...

Knut Hamsen, a Norwegian writer famous for writing Hunger and awarded the Nobel literature prize in the 1940s sent Goebbel, Hitlers minister for Propaganda his Nobel medal in 1943 as a gift and a week after Hitler died he wrote: He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a prophet for the g...

Horcynus Orca by Stefano D'Arrigo Horcynus Orca is a novel by the Italian author Stefano D'Arrigo on which the author worked from 1950 until 1975 (the year of the novel's publication). The novel is almost 1.500 pages long and quickly gained recognition as a masterpiece of Italian literature. Due...

In Paradise Lost, Milton depicts the Greek and Egyptian "gods" as among the fallen angels. It does not seem to matter whether the individual god had an evil or good character in its original myths. As these gods are depicted as so humanlike in their theologies, I struggle to imagine them as monst...

I recall that somewhere Flannery O'Connor complained about the condescending letter she received from her publisher, and I would like the exact reference / quote. The complaint was something along the lines of 'it used terms that one uses in addressing a child'.