Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman wrote that reincarnation is an " ancient, mainstream belief in Judaism.

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

In 2004, May wrote that Oxford's poetry was " one man's contribution to the rhetorical mainstream of an evolving Elizabethan poetic " and challenged readers to distinguish any of it from " the output of his mediocre mid-century contemporaries ".

He wrote 50 books, including ones on popular culture, Canadian history, critiques of mainstream religion, anthologies, children's books and historical works for youth.

In the mid 1920s he worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère and in 1929 he wrote the introduction for Erté's acclaimed exhibition and achieved mainstream popularity through his regular appearances in L ' Illustration magazine.

As well as his historical novels, O ' Brian wrote three adult mainstream novels, six story collections, and a history of the Royal Navy aimed at young readers.

" Abramson wrote that " in mainstream usage the word has come to imply an act of antisemitism ", since whilst " Jews have not been the only group to suffer under this phenomenon, ... historically Jews have been frequent victims of such violence.

Released on 28 May 1990, Pod, although not commercially successful, received positive reviews from mainstream critics ; The New York Times < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Karen Schoemer wrote: " The angular melodies, shattered tempos and screeching dynamics recall elements of each of the women's full-time bands, but Pod has a smart, innovative edge all its own .".

The film also gained attention for depicting homosexuality in a " mainstream " comedy about " Middle America " which, Rita Kempley Howe wrote in the Washington Post, " manages to simultaneously flaunt and flout gay stereotypes.

Many listeners interpreted it as Canibus ' botched attempt at becoming a commercial and mainstream artist and wrote him off as a one-hit wonder, while others have called it a concept album in which the rapper satirized the mainstream hip-hop scene.

It also features a violent decapitation scene ( caused by a horizontal sheet of plate glass ), one of mainstream Hollywood's first: " If there were a special Madame Defarge Humanitarian Award for best decapitation ," wrote Kim Newman in Nightmare Movies ( 1988 ), " this lingering, slow-motion sequence would get my vote.

Melena Ryzik of The New York Times wrote in a retrospect of that " era of left-of-center black singer-songwriters ", stating " many of them struggled to keep their creative momentum, conflicted about their early mainstream success.

Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo ' 66, which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in ; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed ; Arizona Dream ; The Funeral ; and Palookaville.

He also thought it was time a mainstream Hollywood film had a Jewish heroine, and because Barbra Streisand was the industry's most notable Jewish star, he wrote the role of Katie Morosky for her.

Most of the Goo Goo Dolls concerts feature few, if any, songs the band wrote before 1995, reflecting the band ’ s more mainstream sound.

'" While opposing all repression, she wrote, she refused to wear a purple armband or self-identify as a lesbian ( although heterosexual ) as an act of political solidarity, considering it not part of the mainstream issues of abortion and child care.

He wrote at length on the difference between exoteric mainstream Mahayana Buddhism and esoteric Tantric Buddhism.

From the start, they emphasized that they wrote much of their own material, which reflected R & B influences more than mainstream pop roots.

In June 2006, Shermer, who formerly expressed skepticism regarding the mainstream scientific view on global warming, wrote that, in view of the accumulation of evidence, the position of denying global warming is no longer tenable.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that " Ms. Kunis is fast proving that she's a gift that keeps giving to mainstream romantic comedy " and " her energy is so invigorating and expansive and her presence so vibrant that she fills the screen ".

Farrar typically wrote songs about Middle America, while Tweedy wrote about more mainstream topics such as relationships.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

J. G. Ballard wrote a dystopian take on a self-contained building that is much like an arcology in his 1975 novel High Rise.

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

Cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator of Miss Peach and Momma, wrote a comic novel in 1963 titled The Boss Is Crazy, Too which was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working with Capp and his brother Elliot at Toby.

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

" Sean Connery is in the title role of a reclusive old man who 50 years earlier wrote a single novel that garnered the Pulitzer Prize.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.

* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.

In 1941, Trumbo wrote a novel The Remarkable Andrew, in which, in one scene, the ghost of Andrew Jackson appears in order to caution the United States not to get involved in the war.

Also in 1722, Defoe wrote Moll Flanders, another first-person picaresque novel of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England.

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.