TV Actor Jung Hae-In is Ahn Jun-Ho in 'D.P' as a new army enlistee who returns to civilian life as undercover military police to bring back deserters. Published on August 27, 2021 2 min read Netflix’s K-drama D.P. shows audiences the reality of Korea’s mandatory military enlistment. Based on a popular webtoon, the drama stars actor Jung Hae-In as Ahn Jun-Ho, a new military recruit. What sets the army K-drama apart is its storyline.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is required reading in high schools and colleges and cited as a formative influence by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. It’s been canonized by Harold Bloom — even credited for inspiring the tableau in Lemonade where Beyoncé and a clutch of other women regally occupy a wooden porch — but Zora Neale Hurston’s classic novel was eviscerated by critics when it was published in 1937.

Children's booksChildren's booksTop 10 giraffes in children's booksThis long necked, black tongued, most appealingly strange animal pops up in all types of children's books. Here Dianne Hofmeyr, author of Zeraffa Giraffa shares her top 10 best books about giraffesThe first giraffe ever to set hoof in France nearly 200 years ago, confounded everyone with its strangeness. Was it a horned camel? A tall horse? Or a spotted zebra? Today it's still that very strangeness that appeals.

A close reading of The Expendables movie poster (provided by a solid month or so of staring at it while waiting for the C train) has unearthed this strange fact: While the rest of the burly, badass cast is rendered via the traditional method of photography, Messrs. Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke — tucked away at the far right of the lineup, presumably as an awareness-mitigation tactic — are inexplicably illustrated, possibly by an inexperienced and/or drunk police sketch artist operating off directions given by an optically challenged eye witness who had only ever seen Rourke and Willis in a magazine, briefly, once each, several years ago, after a long night of peyote and Mario Kart Wii.

Here lies Anastasia Steele, blindfolded and hog-tied. The innocent “Fifty Shades of Grey” heroine is just out of college and being whipped by a billionaire. Five months into the #MeToo movement, the franchise finale “Fifty Shades Freed” is hitting theaters — and despite our mental image of Dakota Johnson‘s submissive Miss Steele, she might be a role model for the moment.