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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies makes a tremendous first impression. It may actually be impossible to think of two works of imagination with less in...
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With the opening of the movie version of Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon – an event which seems to have rendered much of the world demented...
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The measure of truth in literature is not whether the story is plausible. After all, many great books – The Iliad, Dante’s Inferno, Hamlet...
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If the perfect night-table book (1) offers a likeable heroine (2) tells stories about problems you don’t have, (3) is smart but not taxing, and...
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Filmmakers generally take liberties with novels when they turn them into movies. And they should. What director wants to make a movie that is simply a...
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As Halloween approaches, now is the time for a good, disturbing read. So the Philly Lit Examiner herewith presents his personal list of favorite...
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In My Mother’s House, the French author Colette has pulled off one of the most difficult tricks in literature: she’s written a compelling...
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When Herta Müller of Germany was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this week, millions of reasonably well-read people around the world...
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There are a wealth of Hamlets on film. Here are the Philly Lit Examiner’s personal rankings. Follow the links to compare performances of the...
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Literature is a desiccated corpse and it is today’s giddy, shallow, wild, and reckless youth that have killed...
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