L ast spring I served as an expert witness in a lawsuit involving Daniel Defoe, the 18th-century English novelist and author of Robinson Crusoe. The case concerned a nightclub in Miami called Crusoe ...
Maybe Taiwanese filmmakers wouldn't feel so bad about the malaise of a contemporary society that sacrifices human contact, tradition and spirituality for career and materialistic gain if they stopped ...
On April 25, 1719 — precisely 300 years ago — the London publisher William Taylor issued what has since become one of the most famous books in the world. Its original title page read “The Life and ...