The Great Gatsby: A Timeless Tale of Love, Loss, and Longing
A researched review of The Great Gatsby: its flop of a first printing, the green light, the 1925 critics, and the film, opera and Broadway versions since.
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Othello: A Tragic Tale of Jealousy and Deception
A review of Shakespeare’s Othello: where the play came from, how Iago’s method works, what it does with jealousy, reputation and race, and how stages and screens have handled it since its first recorded performance in 1604.
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Dystopia at its Finest: A Review of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Atwood handwrote the first draft in West Berlin under the title Offred. How the novel was made, why critics doubted it in 1986, the Unburnable Book, and its path from film and opera to Hulu.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: A Tale of Courage, Justice, and Inequality
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, reviewed: how it was made, what it says about courage and judgment, why schools keep challenging it, and how the 1962 film and Broadway stage version carry it forward.
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Exploring the American Dream in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”
Steinbeck lost half of Of Mice and Men to a puppy. How the novella was written, why it keeps landing on challenged-book lists, and how the stage, film and opera versions handled it.
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Brave New World: A Dystopian Vision of a Technologically Advanced Society
A review of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: the author and publication history, the book’s themes, the Huxley–Orwell contrast, adaptations, and where to read it.
