Gather round, my droogs. It's time for a story. Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: ...

Fans of Anderson and Peart's Clockwork titles will be excited to learn that Clockwork Lives: The Graphic Novel is but five months away, set to release on June 19, 2018. While Clockwork Lives: The ...

A Clockwork Orange: should I read the book first or watch the movie first? It goes without saying that I haven't done either--so no spoilers please! PS: ordinarily my first inclination in these ...

Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart cooked up the story with novelist Kevin J. Anderson Protagonist is a teenage apple-orchard worker Rush lyrics appear in the prose of the novel%2C and easter eggs dot ...

The closing lines of "A Clockwork Orange" showcase the unique narrative style of the novel and reflect the protagonist's personal growth. The use of Nadsat slang adds to the story's dystopian feel.

“A Clockwork Orange” is a truly bizarre choice for a venerated film many consider one of the best ever. It’s incredibly dark and grim, but it isn’t a “based on a true story” movie that feels like ...

The late film auteur Stanley Kubrick, heralded as one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, directed only thirteen feature films during his career. Somewhat surprisingly, all but two of his films were ...

Last January, I wrote briefly about 18 books from 1923 that had entered the public domain. One of these, “The Clockwork Man,” by E.V. Odle, particularly caught my attention, in part because it was ...

What kind of a book do we have in “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend”? It includes an account of the 16th-century Spanish prince Don Carlos falling down a flight of ...

What makes a hero? Untold numbers of authors have tried to answer that question, all the while knowing that there can never be a simple solution to such a complex equation. Defining heroism is as ...

In Europe of the 1600s, Edward Dolnick tells us, the average life expectancy was 30. Disease was so rampant that in London, deaths outnumbered births. Belief in the supernatural was commonplace, even ...