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In Brazil, every student of English as a second language hears the phrase “The book is on the table” at some point during their studies. The sentence has been so overly used during English classes, especially when teaching prepositions, that it has become a nation-wide joke. The belief is that if one knows how to say “The book is on the table,” then one knows how to speak … [Read more...] about The Book Is on the Table: What Book?

Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column "Chasing the Unicorn." Recently in class, we were discussing an unusual phenomena: the explosion of tweets from Japan during a television screening of animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky." To which one person in my class actually voiced … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands

By Ashley Huggins Just as every good novel comes to an end, so does my college career. As graduation quickly approaches, I cannot help but think of my experience at USC in a novelistic way, with this event marking the final chapter. In the end, though, it all ends. Elizabeth and Darcy find their happy ending, Romeo and Juliet reach their unhappy fate, Harry Potter vanquishes … [Read more...] about Modern Classics: The End

In the past few years, many people seem to have been capitalizing on the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. The detective tales of Holmes were originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, however, there are countless modern adaptations of these tales. Although Sherlock Holmes has been popularly recreated in a manner reasonably true to the original stories (take the films starring … [Read more...] about Modern Classics: Sure Thing, Sherlock