Category: Culture

As society gets ever stranger, take pride in learning about the true natures of men and women with an excellent book about violence. The 2015 book The Professor in the Cage by…

The question is, how do we reconcile Stephen King's unqualified brilliance in the realm of storytelling with his unqualified buffoonery in the political realm, and especially on Twitter? How can…

Subversive art is everywhere. There must, logically, be equal and opposite art. This article originally appeared on quakkels.com. According to the science fiction author John C. Wright, the term “superversive” was first…

The strength of your novel depends on the strength of your antagonist, not your protagonist. The antagonist should be at least the equal in strength of the protagonist, and preferably…

This often scoffed-at genre has more potential to change hearts and minds than you may think.

I’m not saying it’s your duty to get and review Roots Down to Hell. I’m just saying that by engaging with it, and leaving your honest impressions (preferably on Amazon), you are…

1984 by George Orwell was far more frightening than I remembered it to be. It has been over a decade since I’ve last read it, and much of the themes…

It’s bizarre, but true: Jack London, literature’s greatest proponent of hardcore survival-of-the-fittest philosophy, was a rabid socialist. What could bring about this anamoly? Was Jack bought off? Did he suffer…

It's often said that "conspiracy theories" are a "threat to our democracy," but isn't this fear-mongering about conspiracy theories proof of a conspiracy?

Modern readers sometimes don’t get this novel. I’ll try to explain what the buzz is about. Published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has been hailed as a…