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Although an extremely successful playwright, it was as a teller of tales, as a writer of short stories, that Somerset Maugham was most widel...

As I wandered through Palestine I came to a place where the Moslems show a sepulchre of the prophet Jonas. The respectable blind sire who k...

The mystery of drama is time: how to use time, how to exploit the human perception of time and its ordering into cause and effect. The reje...

Many nineteenth-century anarchists shared with Marxist-inspired revolutionary socialists the belief that ultimately a revolutionary rupture ...

...He followed the doctor out of the door. He stared at the doctor's moving back and looked away, for the doctor's jacket was white ...

James Baldwin's testimony before the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on a bill to establish a National Negro History and Culture Commissi...

The novelist Milan Kundera writes on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting of what he calls the “angelic” and “demonic” states of humanity...