“We were prepared to go into the war, but we were not prepared to come out,” says 23-year-old Rob, who recently returned from Iraq, in The Not Dead. Incorporating the stories of three different men from two generations, the film describes how war experiences can cause serious and permanent mental anguish. Besides Rob, Eddie, who served in Bosnia, and Cliff, who returned from Ma...
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the great national hero he is usually considered to be. He's a fickle and transitory character who was appropriated by the Normans to justify their conquest, he was cuckolded when French writers began adapting the story and it took Thom...