By: Andrew Nickerson Movies have long been one of the world’s best forms of entertainment, thus finding material for them is a huge responsibility for studios. Therefore, it’s no surprise that one of the oldest standbys on that front is…

By: James Aitchison In 1997, Iris Chang’s bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, sold more than half a million copies.  Within seven years, Chang would take her own life. Her book was the…

By James Aitchison Winning the Booker Prize is every author’s dream.  It is arguably the world’s most prestigious literary award.  It bestows distinction upon authors and virtually guarantees a boost in sales.  But few people know that the award had…

By: David R. Topper  As I recall, in the TV series, Genius – which began with a series on Albert Einstein, this one by Ron Howard – the opening sequence showed a middle-aged Albert and his secretary having sex in…

Sun Tzu and Entertainment: Predator[i]’s Dillon Betrayal By: Andrew Nickerson In military history/tactics/strategy, many names have risen/fallen over the ages, the reasons for the latter running the gamut from technology to politics. However, one name has endured every such trial…

By James Aitchison Meet Elizabeth Báthory, the Hungarian noblewoman who is said to have tortured and murdered 650 female victims and bathed in their blood.  Her motivation?  The search for eternal youth.  But was she really a serial killer in…

By: Ignatius Fernandez For it is in pardoning we rise above animals. It is in forgiving we find our human nature – Joe Mannath. Some years ago, in a city on the West Coast of the US, Julian Motheral was…

By James Aitchison Can elderly fingers, wrinkled, with pronounced knuckles, still tap out books that are relevant to readers, coherent in language and plot, and worthy to be published? It seems they can.  While ageism confronts most in the workplace,…

[Kiriti Sengupta’s Selected Poems published by Transcendent Zero Press, Houston (Texas)] By Mitali Chakravarty “What if you weren’t a poet?” (“Intrinsic”) Well, he wasn’t. A poet. I am referring to Kiriti Sengupta, who began as a dentist and developed a…

By: April Mae M. Berza In the heat-drenched corners of the Philippine archipelago—where roads turn to rivers during monsoon, where schools are often hours away by foot, and where children dream in dialects rarely printed in textbooks—education does not begin…