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Don't be so surprised.... All of this is life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town [...]

I IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES, IN such works as Robert Southey's Botany Bay Eclogues, the young Australian colonies were imagined simultaneously as barren wastelands, utopias of [...]

The high frequency of Jane Austen's use of the word 'very' in 'Emma' (1815) is analyzed for its possible deliberate interpretive purpose. It is argued that the repetitive use of 'very' indicates isolation and the boring monotonousness of small-town life depicted in the novel.

This essay suggests that the speaker of Gwendolyn Brooks's long poem, 'In the Mecca,' anticipates a specifically urban feminist poetics by narrating the poem from the perspective of a flaneuse. [...]

The works and views of urbanist Marshall Berman are discussed. Article analyzes the social cost of urban development in New York City.

Changes in Berlin, Germany, reflects the changing attitudes of some German people who are beginning to openly recount how they feel they should no longer be made to feel guilty about the past. The redevelopment of the Potsdamerplatz into major business area along with new events, such as the Love Parade, are part of the new attitude to the past. The number of Jews returning to the city, in the 1990s, has risen to between 10,000-12,000 from only 2,000 since the 1950s. Berlin is becoming an important location for film makers. Although many German intellectuals are still leaving Germany.

Marketing is in the ascendance, journalism almost an afterthought. Remember those apocalyptic headlines two years ago, the ones predicting that plague and pestilence would be visited upon all that journalism [...]