and she left behind numerous important works and helped change the perception of Southern literature. O’Connor was an intensely shy and quirky author who decided to buy a peafowl family on a ...

They include the site of the Great Elm on Boston Common, "where women paid the ultimate price for refusing to conform to puritanical values," according to a release from the Freedom Foundation.

Alain Guiraudie broke through with “Stranger by the Lake.” In his new movie, “Misericordia,” eroticism and death are also intimately entangled. By Carlos Aguilar Carnal urges drive the ...

New York and New England went on to become competing centers of power and ideology: one pluralistic and globally-minded; the other moralistic, monocultural and, well, puritanical. The geography ...

F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is synonymous with glitz and glamour but this is just one of many myths that have surrounded the book since its first publication in April 1925. Adrian Turpin ...