Tag: literary adaptation

Making an End of Anger: Valor, Heroism, and Warriors

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|Veda Lawerence| The Warriors is based on a book (The Warriors, by Sol Yurick) which is based on a work by Xenophon (Anabasis) that details the journey of an army of ancient Greek mercenaries. Xenophon recorded the tales of his battles as a soldier in the Greek army around four… Continue reading

Killer Smile

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|MH Rowe| Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust (1939), which like Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays (1970) is a classically bleak “Hollywood novel,” ends as Didion’s later story never could: with a riot. No one could riot in Play It as It Lays. Although it is set in the unruly 1960s the violence of… Continue reading