• Why can't a woman write the Great American Novel? Excerpt: The boundless horizon that Showalter sees opening up before us is more likely to feature memoirs and other forms of nonfiction as its landmarks, yet her book barely touches on these genres....
• Many Americans vexed by spelling The nation is not letter perfect. Americans may be embarassed, even. Make that "embarrassed" - it's among the common words that vex the spell-challenged in an age of spell check. According to a study...
• Defiance: Those who did not “wait for God” (WSWS) -- Archival footage of the 1941 invasion of Belarus in the Soviet Union by Hitler’s forces opens Defiance, the new movie by veteran American filmmaker Edward Zwick. Within weeks the...
• Quantum of Solace: James Bond vs. imperialism (WSWS) -- The new film begins where the last ended (See “Casino Royale: the new James Bond film” .) Bond has captured the nefarious Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) and, following a car...
• To serve and protect? In his new movie, Changeling, Clint Eastwood tells an important story of LAPD corruption and incompetence.
(Socialist Worker) -- In1928, young boys were disappearing from the streets of Los Angeles, but the police were too corrupt to care. It's against this backdrop that Clint Eastwood's new film...
• American Revolutionary: Quiet Boston Scholar Inspires Rebels Around the World In February, the Iranian government showed a fictionalized video on the dangers of foreign plots against the state. One of its stars: a mysterious American named Gene Sharp.
In June 2007, Venezuelan...
• Shakespeare's 'first theatre' unearthed The theatre where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London,...
• Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (RIA Novosti) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist and historian who told the world about the horrors of Soviet labor camps, died at 89 in Moscow Sunday morning.
The author of The...
• Scientist: Donuts Helped Shape Our Culture: Researcher Claims American Devotion to Donuts Fueled by Life's Other Struggles Mullins has documented the arrival of the precursor of the donut in this country in the 1800s, when the Dutch pastry, olykoek, showed up in New York and other cities. By the mid-19th century,...
• Heavy metal monk in second album Heavy Metal monk talks about his love of Metallica At first glance, Cesare Bonizzi looks like the archetypal Capuchin monk - round-faced, stout, with twinkling eyes and a long flowing white beard....
• The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre Burned by portrayals of Vietnam, the Pentagon focuses on a new era of filmmakers. 'It's important to tell the full story,' says Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, who is deployed to Wilshire...
• Einstein letter sold for record sum -- Parts 1 & 2 Excerpt: Albert Einstein was educated in both the Christian and Jewish religions, but he became a convinced atheist at the age of 12 and refused to take part in the Jewish Bar Mitzvah ceremony....
• 'Expelled' fair use upheld (Wikinews) -- The use of a 25 second clip from John Lennon's song Imagine in a film critical of the Theory of Evolution has been deemed legal under a fair use doctrine by U.S. District Judge Sidney...
• Steroids film examines obsession with winning A new documentary that takes a wide-ranging look at steroid abuse suggests an American culture of winning at all costs is at odds with its public condemnation of the performance-enhancing drugs....
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