A clock strikes midnight with deep notes. A man clad in back drags a mysterious person’s body down a coiling staircase and a voice asks in Italian: “Who is there” while statues of angels and gargoyles,...

In what puzzle do the words CHEESEWEDGE, LAHORE, and ADELE coexist? In a crossword puzzle, that is! Created in 1913, the crossword has evolved with the times and has been keeping minds sharp for over 100...

Entranced in a dark-academia fog, The Secret History by Donna Tartt isn’t a difficult novel to get lost in. Since I shut its pages and seemingly left its world, it has been inextricably forged in my...

“There was a cabaret, and there was a Master of Ceremonies. And there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany. It was the end of the world.” - Clifford Bradshaw, Cabaret The 1966 musical...

The chairman of the Tourtured Poets Department required our presence on April 19th at midnight sharp to listen to, dissect, and experience a new anthology of works that meditate on the events, sentiments,...

The movies "Oppenheimer”, directed by Cristopher Nolan, and “Poor Things”, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, have won Oscars for many nominations that were held at the Academy Awards. These Oscars included...

“It’s the things we love most that destroy us,” the familiar voice of President Coriolanus Snow rang through the dark theater before the end credits of The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes rolled....