I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

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For centuries, women have graced the coins of Europe and beyond, not as queens or empresses, but as personifications of nations. These allegories—figures such as Britannia, Helvetia, and Marianne—are ...

To the editor: Many borough residents are aware that our public services are under threat of underfunding or loss due to the current financial circumstances. Not everyone is aware that this austerity ...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons movie is a lot of things. It’s a fascinating look at some colorful characters who make up a little town. It’s really scary and intense. And then, suddenly, it’s also really ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

Taylor Henderson is a music, entertainment, and travel journalist based in Los Angeles, California. When he's not screaming over the latest Beyoncé album, he's dissecting pop culture, trekking up some ...

George Orwell had a unique talent for predicting the future in his books, notably 1984, but now seeing director Andy Serkis‘ new animated take on Orwell’s 1945 all-too-predictive allegory and ...

Sinners, which is directed, written and produced by Ryan Coogler — the visionary behind "Black Panther" and "Creed" — is set in Jim Crow Era Clarksdale, Mississippi, and tells the story of two ...

The installation forms an interactive physical and digital environment, functioning as a technological, architectural, and artistic device. It features videos of real Portuguese landscapes by artist ...

English in Africa, Vol. 48, No. 1, Special Issue: Commemorating the Olive Schreiner Centenary (APRIL 2021), pp. 13-32 (20 pages) Olive Schreiner’s short fiction, published in Dreams (1890), Dream Life ...