When a hit British show is copied in the U.S., differences between the original and the copy are a window into the contrasting dreams and values of the two nations. The adaptation of the British show The House of Cards for American consumers is ...
When the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature, a reporter said to him: "James Joyce wrote the most highly praised novel of the 20th century. William Butler Yeats is perhaps the greatest poet in English. ...