'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Zsolt Alapi, tells the story of an immigrant who has left the United States during the Vietnam War and who tries to find a

Originally published: Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003, in series: Crosscurrents.

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of th

Three interconnected short-stories set in Paris explore the issue of choice, survival and transformation. In the first story, a young man on his first business