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4 Dec 2023, 3:06 pm by Aaron Moss
Lights of New York, the first all-talking full-length feature film, will also enter the U.S. public domain in 2024, as will Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats, which is the oldest American picture book still in print. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Civic Education, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 8:57 am by Kang Haggerty LLC
Edgar Hoover against anti-war protestors by leaking the documents they obtained to the American press. [read post]
10 Jul 2021, 7:00 am by Rainer Winters
Input from Great Britain: The Zatarra Report In 2016, British short-sellers summarized in Sherlock Holmes-style what all is rotten at Wirecard. [read post]
10 Jul 2021, 7:00 am by Rainer Winters
Input from Great Britain: The Zatarra Report In 2016, British short-sellers summarized in Sherlock Holmes-style what all is rotten at Wirecard. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Is a “republican” society organized around the quest for a common good that will be sought by suitably socialized citizens destined to become a distinctly more “liberal” order that accepts the priority of individual interests and the psychology associated with self-seeking (ultimately defined so memorably by Oliver Wendell Holmes in terms of his completely egoistic “bad man” concerned only with maximizing individual utilities)? [read post]
21 May 2020, 6:44 am by Rohit De
There seems to be an overwhelming consensus, that despite its origins in the US with Edgar Alan Poe’s Murders in Rue Morgue and its immense popularity in countries like Japan., the 20th century genre was distinctly centered and influenced by Britain peaking as a genre in the 1930s and 1940s, described as the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction".Curiously while these are decades of  extreme political turmoil in Europe, economic depression and contentious politics in… [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 4:45 am by Peter Groves
The author examines the cognitive aspects of creativity before going on to look at genre theories (with an interesting discussion of how Sherlock Holmes derives from the work of Edgar Allen Poe) and the justifications for what he calls the "derivative works right", though I am not convinced of the need to identify it as a distinct instance of copyright protection - reproduction right ought to do the job.But perhaps that remark just shows me to be unsympathetic to the… [read post]
1 Apr 2018, 12:42 pm
 Nevertheless, very interesting materials inviting readers to do their own investigations into the law and culture of policing and detecting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In addition to Doyle, other turn of the 20th century and Golden Age writers who used real crime to inspire their novels include Edgar Allan Poe,Here's a very selected bibliography of secondary works that discuss the subject.The Cambridge Companion To Crime Fiction (Martin Edwards, ed.,… [read post]
1 Apr 2018, 11:44 am by Christine Corcos
 Nevertheless, very interesting materials inviting readers to do their own investigations into the law and culture of policing and detecting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In addition to Doyle, other turn of the 20th century and Golden Age writers who used real crime to inspire their novels include Edgar Allan Poe,Here's a very selected bibliography of secondary works that discuss the subject.The Cambridge Companion To Crime Fiction (Martin Edwards, ed.,… [read post]
20 Jan 2018, 6:46 am
And here they are, from the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Award nominations for this year:Best NovelThe Dime by Kathleen Kent (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co. [read post]
20 Jan 2018, 6:46 am by Christine Corcos
And here they are, from the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Award nominations for this year:Best NovelThe Dime by Kathleen Kent (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:07 pm by kate
Edgar Hoover, employed the Espionage Act to suppress the opinions of left-wing political figures. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Edgar Hoover, who in 1919 was put in charge of the “Radical Division” at the F.B.I., eagerly stoked the flames, embarking on witch hunts for anyone deemed “suspicious”. [read post]