literature-and-arts

Frankenstein’s monster is the artificial creature created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . Often misnamed "Frank...

Agnès in Murder on the Orient Express begins after the luxurious Orient Express is halted by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia. In the isolated hours of the night, a passenger is found...

Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” interrogates what happens to a dream deferred, asking whether it dries up like a raisin, festers like a sore, or explodes. Written in 1951...