“A senseless fight”?: ‘Miss Saigon’ and the legacy of the Vietnam War
“They drafted me and shipped me out to wind up in that senseless fight. There, in a shambles of a...
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Tag: Lyricism
Camus, Dylan, and the Nobel Prize: Writers in the Spotlight
2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Albert Camus being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
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Sondheim’s Rhymes: Pointing Sense
Rhyme is a device to which Stephen Sondheim pays meticulously precise care and attention; he opens...
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Ed Sheeran and the Romance of Class
In December 2015 Ed Sheeran announced a break from his phone, emails, and social media. Explaining...
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