Today on Project Gutenberg #22

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Heretics and Heresies by Robert Green Ingersoll Well, you can't go wrong with a title like that. It sounds like the best/weirdest Dungeons & Dragons spin-off ever. Okay, so today's book never gets that wild. But it's interesting nonetheless, and its author is an especially interesting guy. Robert Green …

Today on Project Gutenberg #21

Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Pleasures of the Telescope by Garrett P. Serviss This book comes to us all the way from 1901. It presents itself as "An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and A Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers." The author, Garrett Putnam Serviss, was actually …

A Brief and Boredom-Induced Guide to German Expressionist Films, Part 2

NOTE: Some of the films I'll look at in this article deal with content and themes that might be upsetting to some readers/viewers, including the deaths of children (M) and a scene of sexual assault (Variety). I won't dwell too long on such topics, but there are a few cases where I couldn't properly discuss …