IntroductionZbigniew Brzezinki’s 1997 book The Grand Chessboard has been one of the most controversial readings in geopolitics. Written from the perspective of the person of influence and a part of the American political elite, it presents America as the hegemon of the world power and positively assesses its drive to...

In Planet of the Apes, the author has three men go out on the same voyage, and all encounter the conflict much the same way. There is a specific reason why the author chose to make it a three-person journey rather than just having a single person go out and...

1940s Shanghai is an interesting setting for a novel. China was in the middle of a civil war and many men were conscripted into the Kuomintang. Issues with the communist government were also at the very center of people’s minds. This interesting backdrop has provided an interesting setting for a...

Notes of a Native Son is one of the seminal books in the career of James Baldwin. The essay itself is built upon the life of Baldwin, and is used as a means to tackle many themes of oppression and racism within America and Europe. The primary way in which...

Eimi Yamada’s story, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” is not one that is about sex or love, but rather about a woman’s awakening of self. On the surface, the story is about a woman who meets a younger man on a trip to Florida. She is telling the story...