True Grit, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, is a stylish Western, a fast-moving revenge story, and a worthy companion to both the Charles Portis novel on which it's based and the other movie ...

From Iceland to India, from prehistoric cave paintings and fertility figurines to such modern-day""myths"" as the invisible hand, the Oedipal conflict and Schrodinger's cat, Leeming's intriguing ...

With Halloween approaching, University of Virginia professor of Slavic languages and literatures Stanley Stepanic investigated the history of vampire legends for The Conversation, reposted below.

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...