Topic: Joseph Conrad

Flick lit coming to TIFF

Yes, we all know the book was better than the movie. But for the next 10 days, please keep this glaringly obvious opinion to yourself. During the...
By the sounds of things on both Twitter over the past couple of days, and within the more antiquated environs of social networking, it was, at...

Burnaby student says school censored this article

We received a note from an upset Burnaby South Secondary student named Elias Ishak last week. He claims his article for the school newspaper was...

'We, the Drowned' by Carsten Jensen: review

0 . . We, the Drowned By Carsten Jensen; translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund with Emma Ryder (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 678 pages; ...

What's with all the apes?

We've noticed, in recent months, that there seems to be more books about animals than usual. Yann Martel built his novel Beatrice and Virgil around...

Sailing

The hobby or sport of sailing refers to directing a sailboat by managing the force of the wind on a sail by altering the rigging, centerboard and rudder. " — Chinese Proverb "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at ...
Ok, students, listen up! To torture that metaphor further, your essay is kind of an ?omelet? that results from the original blending of the brainstorm process. ) If you need help on determining exactly what a thesis statement is, how to develop it ...

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is a television drama that gives the viewer a glimpse into the minds of the disturbed and delusional members of society, and shows them the process the FBI 's BAU takes in order to apprehend the Unsubs, or Unknown Subjects ...

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857 -1924 ) was a novelist, whose works are considered some of the greatest in the English language. Some criticized his work, calling it racist and pessimistic, while most claimed Conrad's works were sympathetic to blacks when interpreted correctly. He ...
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was one of the first Hollywood films to tackle the immense subject of Vietnam, and has from its initial release (and in fact even before its release) always been controversial. least) is that of imperialism ...