ILLNESS AS METAPHOR by Susan Sontag is a sharp, thought-provoking essay that dismantles the cultural beliefs surrounding diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. With clear, incisive prose, Sontag reveals how metaphors linked to illnessas punishment, weakness, or emotional failurenot only misinform but also stigmatize patients and make treatment more difficult. Written while the author herself was undergoing cancer treatment (though she never mentions...

The novelist records his thoughts, feelings, and experiences during the writing of The grapes of wrath, in this diary of those years.

Examines different aspects of Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work.

"It took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success as a writer with the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses coming twenty-seven years after his debut. The second half of his long career brought major prizes, more bestsellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. The sharp upturn in McCarthy's readership, especially with the genre exercises No Country for Old Men and The Road, has obscured his...

"As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant? Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. If we persist in reading Shakespeare as representative of only one group, as the very pinnacle of the white Western canon, then he will truly be in peril....