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James Joyce’s Ulysses is one of the most amazing–amazingly baffling, amazingly clever–books I’ve ever read. But you wouldn’t recognize its awesomeness if you based your opinion on the words …

If you didn’t read the first post in this series, then you should know one thing right up front: my opinion of “helpful” literary analysis websites like Sparknotes, GradeSaver, and Schmoop …

Today’s society is rife with issues centering around what and who is considered the “other”—people who are different, even if the difference only comes in the form of race, …

We have always been fascinated with the mysteries of the deep. In the days when the world was still being explored, cartographers would draw sea serpents and other monsters …