“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his
fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald …

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that
will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the …

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is a novel intent on blasting open the classical unities of time
and place. On publication in 2004, its unusual structure made it a talking-point for reviewers …

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of
three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra …

The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated
with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten …

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The popular
novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over 10 million, and two …

As used here, the term “millennial” encompasses the adjective millennial as applied to
fiction written on either side of the millennium of the year 2000, by authors of any generation …

“Tempest” is one of the longest songs Dylan has written. His point of departure is the Titanic
disaster, but it soon becomes obvious that Titanic is a metaphor, pointing to something much …

The article explores the relation between biblical archetypes existing in American popular
video games. In analyzing a blockbuster title, Detroit: Become Human developed by Quantic …

Baptist minister and author of novels, plays, sermons, and essays, Thomas Dixon, Jr. today
remains most known as the storyteller behind the 1915 DW Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation …