Orlando di Lasso was a Flemish composer whose music stands at the apex of the Franco-Netherlandish style that dominated European music of the Renaissance. As a child he was a choirboy at St. Nicholas in Mons and because of his beautiful voice was kidnapped three times for other choirs. He was taken

Mont Lassois, site of great Celtic fortifications near Châtillon-sur-Seine in the Côte-d’Or département, France. The hill-fort of Vix, on Mt. Lassois, seems to have been the centre of widespread political authority and extensive trade relations, especially during the 6th century bc. The rich Celtic

Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104: …of Dvořák’s own songs, “Lasst mich allein” (German: “Leave Me Alone”). The song had been a particular favourite of the composer’s sister-in-law Josefina, who had recently died. Having loved Josefina before he consented to marry her sister Anna, Dvořák here paid tribute to his first love. For the final…

Western architecture: France: …by the commission’s leading architects, Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Lassus trained Viollet-le-Duc first on the restorations in Paris of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois and the Sainte-Chapelle. In 1844 they were both appointed to restore Notre-Dame de Paris and to build a new sacristy in the Gothic style; this was regarded as an…

Orlando di Lasso was a Flemish composer whose music stands at the apex of the Franco-Netherlandish style that dominated European music of the Renaissance. As a child he was a choirboy at St. Nicholas in Mons and because of his beautiful voice was kidnapped three times for other choirs. He was taken

Orlando di Lasso was a Flemish composer whose music stands at the apex of the Franco-Netherlandish style that dominated European music of the Renaissance. As a child he was a choirboy at St. Nicholas in Mons and because of his beautiful voice was kidnapped three times for other choirs. He was taken

Harold Lasswell was an influential political scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of personality and politics and for other major contributions to contemporary behavioral political science. He authored more than 30 books and 250 scholarly articles on diverse subjects,

Harold Lasswell was an influential political scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of personality and politics and for other major contributions to contemporary behavioral political science. He authored more than 30 books and 250 scholarly articles on diverse subjects,

Harold Lasswell was an influential political scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of personality and politics and for other major contributions to contemporary behavioral political science. He authored more than 30 books and 250 scholarly articles on diverse subjects,

M. Night Shyamalan: …Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013), were widely panned by critics. However, he was able to reestablish his reputation for good storytelling and compelling character development in The Visit (2015) and Split (2016), the latter being a sequel to Unbreakable.

Junior Johnson: …Wolfe’s landmark 1965 essay “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” (The article, credited as a key work in the burgeoning field of the “New Journalism,” coined the term good ol’ boy.) Johnson was a member of the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2010.

Olaf Stapledon: …the success of his novel Last and First Men (1930), he turned to fiction.

Paul Muni: …gangsters, and his final film, The Last Angry Man (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a crusading doctor. Muni also had prominent roles in several TV anthology series, and after a 1962 appearance on the show Saints and Sinners, he retired from acting.

Viktor Rydberg: …which Den siste Atenaren (The Last Athenian), the novel that made his name, appeared serially in 1859. Its description of the clash between paganism and Christianity in ancient Athens revealed his opposition to clerical intolerance and orthodoxy and had a direct bearing on conditions in Sweden. He had previously…

Helmut Käutner: …is Die letzte Brücke (1954; The Last Bridge), which won the International Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Käutner’s success during this period won him a contract with Universal Pictures in 1957. His two American-made films were the family melodrama The Restless Years (1958) and A Stranger in My…

Harry Mulisch: Hoogste tijd (1985; Last Call) tells the story of an elderly actor who collaborated with the Nazis during the war. De ontdekking van de hemel (1992; The Discovery of Heaven; filmed 2001) increased Mulisch’s international presence with its discussion of the theological questions raised by science. De procedure…

Alphonse de Lamartine: Early life and Méditations poétiques: Le Dernier Chant du pèlerinage d’Harold, published in 1825, revealed the charm that the English poet Lord Byron exerted over him. Lamartine was elected to the French Academy in 1829, and the following year he published the two volumes of Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, a…

James Gandolfini: …uptight military prison warden in The Last Castle, and as a victim of blackmail in The Man Who Wasn’t There. Subsequent works include the musical Romance & Cigarettes (2005); The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), a remake of the 1974 crime thriller about a subway train hijacking; the…

John Irving: …Irving published his 15th novel, The Last Chairlift. A sprawling work about families, it centres on a writer who has an unconventional childhood and later attempts to learn the identity of his father.

Helena, city and capital of Montana, U.S., seat (1867) of Lewis and Clark county. The city is situated near the Missouri River, at the eastern foot of the Continental Divide (elevation 3,955 feet [1,205 metres]), in Prickly Pear Valley, a fertile region surrounded by rolling hills and lofty

Dustin Hoffman: …who fall in love in Last Chance Harvey (2008). He reprised his Meet the Fockers role in its sequel, Little Fockers (2010), and later appeared as the title character’s father in the dark comedy Barney’s Version (2010). In addition, Hoffman lent his voice to the computer-animated films The Tale of…

Emilia Clarke: Other credits: …starred in the holiday comedy Last Christmas (2019), playing an aspiring singer working as an elf at a retail store. In 2022 she lent her voice to the animated family film The Amazing Maurice. The following year she played the Skrull G’iah in the TV miniseries Secret Invasion, part of…

The Last Chronicle of Barset, the final Barsetshire novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1866–67 and in book form in 1867. It is a satirical view of a materialistic

contributory negligence: …exposes himself to certain dangers; last clear chance, which allows the plaintiff to recover even though contributorily negligent—if the defendant had the last clear chance to avoid the mishap.

Amy Schumer: …the NBC TV reality show Last Comic Standing. Although she finished fourth, the exposure elevated her profile, and in 2010 she headlined a TV episode of Comedy Central Presents. Schumer released Cutting, her debut stand-up album, in 2011, and the following year she appeared in Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff…

Frank Lloyd: …then made his final film, The Last Command (1955), a long but effective telling of the Alamo’s last days, with Sterling Hayden as Jim Bowie and Arthur Hunnicutt as Davy Crockett.

Emil Jannings: …an embittered family man, and The Last Command (1928), in which he was an exiled Russian general reduced to playing bit parts in war films. (During the early years of the awards, actors could be nominated for multiple performances.) With the advent of sound in American cinema, Jannings was forced…

Domenichino: His altarpiece of the Last Communion of Saint Jerome (1614) shows his concern for accurate facial expressions and tightly knit groupings of figures.

eclipse: Eclipses of the Sun: …the Sun’s disk at the last contact.

Donna Summer: …and her signature song, “Last Dance,” from the film Thank God It’s Friday (1978). The latter track won the Academy Award for best song in 1979.

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov: …his best-known work, the monumental “Last Day of Pompeii” (1830–33), while there; it brought him an international reputation. Though he painted other large canvases with historical subjects, none was as successful as “Pompeii.” Much of his continuing reputation rests on his more intimate portraits and his watercolours and travel sketches.

Lee Smith: Her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (1968), was written while she was in college. She typically wrote stories that are set in the contemporary South and, eschewing the gothic and grotesque, are filled with the details of everyday life. Her widely admired fourth novel, Black…

Gus Van Sant: …the theme of alienation in Last Days (2005), this time creating an impressionistic, mainly dialogue-free chronicle of the days before the suicide of a rock star resembling Kurt Cobain.

Gillian Armstrong: Fires Within (1991) and The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) garnered little notice, but Armstrong achieved another hit with her take on Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women (1994), starring Winona Ryder, Christian Bale, and Susan Sarandon. Oscar and Lucinda (1997), set in mid-19th-century

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton: In 1947 his book The Last Days of Hitler was published, and it quickly became a best-seller. From 1946 to 1957 he taught history at Christ Church College. During this period he wrote several articles about Hitler, stirring controversy by contending that Hitler was not only a systematic thinker…

Cecilia Beaux: …her sister and nephew entitled Last Days of Infancy, was exhibited in 1885 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1886 at the Paris Salon. During 1888–89 she traveled and studied in Europe, taking instruction at the Académie Julian in Paris and from several leading artists, including…

James Patterson: …of the Egyptian pharaoh, and The Last Days of John Lennon (2020; written with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge), about the murder of the legendary musician.

Ishmael Reed: The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) is a detective story set amid the racial violence of Berkeley in the 1960s. Flight to Canada (1976) depicts the anachronistic adventures of an enslaved man from the American Civil War era who escapes to freedom via bus…

Ernest B. Schoedsack: Later films: The Last Days of Pompeii, Dr. Cyclops, and Mighty Joe Young: …attempted a DeMille-style spectacle with The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), with Cooper again producing, Rose writing the screenplay, and O’Brien handling the special effects. It was a major box-office failure. Schoedsack was reduced to making two low-budget adventures at Columbia starring Jack Holt, Trouble in Morocco and Outlaws of…

Hal Ashby: The 1970s: It was The Last Detail (1973), however, that advanced Ashby to the front rank of mainstream directors. The film offers a hilarious (and often profane) turn by Jack Nicholson as a U.S. Navy chief petty officer who (along with Otis Young as his partner) draws the unpleasant…

Tom Petty: …Hall of Fame and released The Last DJ, the title song of which was a scathing indictment of music industry greed. Petty’s third solo album, Highway Companion (2006), and the Heartbreakers’ blues-drenched Mojo (2010) followed. Hypnotic Eye, another Heartbreakers’ effort, topped the Billboard album chart in 2014.

Ridley Scott: Scott next directed The Last Duel (2021), an action-drama based on the true story of an alleged rape during the Middle Ages and the ensuing trial by combat between the accuser’s husband (Damon) and the alleged attacker (Adam Driver). He also collaborated with Driver on the true-crime drama…

millennialism: Early Christian millennialism: …produce the myth of the Last Emperor, a superhuman figure who would unite all of Christendom, rule in peace and justice for 120 years, and abdicate his throne prior to the brief rule of the Antichrist. Imperial millennialism probably influenced Constantine I—the first “Last Emperor”—and offered a powerful antidote to…

The Last Emperor, historical epic film, released in 1987, that was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and told the story of Puyi (Pu Yi in the film), the last emperor of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty in China. The movie garnered nine Academy Awards, including that for best picture. (Read Martin Scorsese’s

Robin Maugham: …charts their doomed friendship; and The Last Encounter (1972), which portrays Charles George (“Chinese”) Gordon of Khartoum as a man as unsure of his destiny as of his sexual orientation.

English literature: Discursive prose: …of Elia (1823) and The Last Essays of Elia (1833), Charles Lamb, an even more personal essayist, projects with apparent artlessness a carefully managed portrait of himself—charming, whimsical, witty, sentimental, and nostalgic. As his fine Letters show, however, he could on occasion produce mordant satire. Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village…

Sam Rockwell: …but well-reviewed independent movies, including Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Strictly Business (1991), Light Sleeper (1992), Somebody to Love (1994), and The Search for One-Eye Jimmy (1994). However, it was his leading role as an eccentric free spirit in Box of Moonlight (1996) that first gained him widespread

American literature: Realism and metafiction: (Last Exit to Brooklyn [1964]), documented lower-class urban life with brutal frankness. Similarly, John Rechy portrayed America’s urban homosexual subculture in City of Night (1963). As literary and social mores were liberalized, Cheever himself dealt with homosexuality in his prison novel Falconer

Julia Garner: Martha Marcy May Marlene and other early roles: …as well as roles in The Last Exorcism: Part II (2013) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). Garner then starred as another pregnant teenager, this time in Grandma (2015).

Steve Carell: Battle of the Sexes and Vice: …in the Iraq War, in Last Flag Flying.

James Tiptree, Jr.: …with the calmly apocalyptic “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain” (1969; revised 1974). A biologist in love with Earth and its natural beauty, Dr. Ain flies around the world deliberately spreading a virus that will wipe out humanity. In “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973; winner of a…

William Dieterle: Warner Brothers: …English-language picture for Warners was The Last Flight (1931), a bleak Lost Generation drama set in Paris about four World War I airmen whose disillusionment leads to tragic results; it starred Richard Barthelmess, Elliott Nugent, David Manners, and Johnny Mack Brown. In 1931 Dieterle also directed Her Majesty, Love, an…

Alaska, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted to the union as the 49th state on January 3, 1959. Alaska lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent, and the Alaska Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere. Because the 180th meridian

Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: The Last Frontier (1955) starred Victor Mature as a mountain man who becomes a U.S. Army scout. Serenade (1956) represented a major departure, but Mann’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel was a critical and commercial failure.

Ed Harris: …also appeared in the film The Last Full Measure (2019) as a Vietnam War survivor, and he played General George Patton in the World War II movie Resistance (2020).

American literature: Southern fiction: The Moviegoer (1961) and The Last Gentleman (1966) established Walker Percy as an important voice in Southern fiction. Their musing philosophical style broke sharply with the Southern gothic tradition and influenced later writers such as Richard Ford in The Sportswriter (1986) and its moving sequel, Independence Day (1995). Equally…

Carolyn Heilbrun: In the nonfiction work The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (1997), Heilbrun wrote of how she came to reject her decision, made years earlier, to commit suicide at age 70. In 2003, however, she took her own life at age 77.

last glacial maximum (LGM), the most recent geologic interval, which spanned 29,000 to 19,000 years ago, in which the geographic extent of ice sheet and glacier coverage on Earth’s surface peaked. Some 8 percent of the planet’s total surface was covered in ice, and sea levels were approximately 125

good-night, sensational type of broadside ballad (q.v.), popular in England from the 16th through the 19th century, purporting to be the farewell statement of a criminal made shortly before his execution. Good-nights are usually repentant in tone, containing a sketchy account of how the criminal

Morris Janowitz: His The Last Half Century; Societal Change and Politics in America (1978) is a major synthesis of ideas on social control.

Wayne Wang: Career: … (2005) and the romantic comedy Last Holiday (2006), starring rappers-turned-actors Queen Latifah and LL Cool J, followed.

Wes Craven: …debut was the horror film The Last House on the Left (1972), which was considered so gory that it was banned in Britain until 2002. Despite its unrelenting violence, the movie received some critical praise. The Hills Have Eyes (1977), another low-budget slasher film, did well at the box office…

accounting: Cost of goods sold: …(1) first-in, first-out (FIFO), (2) last-in, first-out (LIFO), or (3) average cost. The LIFO method is widely used in the United States, where it is also an acceptable costing method for income tax purposes; companies in most other countries measure inventory cost and the cost of goods sold by some…

English literature: Literary reactions to the political climate: …with this mode, and his Last Instructions to a Painter (written in 1667) achieves a control of a broad canvas and an alertness to apt detail and to the movement of masses of people that make it a significant forerunner of Pope’s Dunciad, however divergent the two poets’ political visions…

Luca Signorelli: …the World” and the “Last Judgment” (1499–1502), is in the chapel of S. Brizio in Orvieto cathedral. Those frescoes, which greatly influenced Michelangelo, are crowded with powerful nudes painted in many postures that accentuate their musculature. Signorelli had little sense of colour, but here his greenish and purple devils…

Jean Cousin, the Younger: …important surviving work is the “Last Judgment,” now in the Louvre, the theme of which is the insignificance of human life; the composition suggests both Florentine Mannerism and Flemish influences. Cousin also is noted for his drawing style, best represented in the emblematic style of his “Livre de Fortune” (1568).…

Francisco Pacheco: Such paintings as the Last Judgment (1614) in the convent of Santa Isabel and the Martyrs of Granada are highly imitative and rigid works, monumental but unimpressive. Although Velázquez became Pacheco’s son-in-law, he was uninfluenced by his father-in-law’s art.

Lucas van Leyden: …all in his masterpiece, the Last Judgment (commissioned 1526), in which the composition is unified by the clear, dominant rhythm of the figures and the logically rendered space.

Pietro Cavallini: …his most famous works, a Last Judgment fresco, frescoes of Old Testament scenes (only fragments survive), and an Annunciation in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome. Here the classicizing elements of his mosaics are consolidated in a powerful and grandly expressive style best illustrated by a beautiful and lively group…

Last Judgment, a general, or sometimes individual, judging of the thoughts, words, and deeds of persons by God, the gods, or by the laws of cause and effect. The Western prophetic religions (i.e., Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) developed concepts of the Last Judgment that are

Western sculpture: Romanesque: …Burgundy, such as the spectral Last Judgment at Autun or the Pentecost at Vézelay; and, on the other hand, by the sculpture of Provence, such as that of Saint-Trophime in Arles or of the church in Saint-Gilles, which retain many of the forms and characteristics of Classical antiquity.

The Last Judgment, fresco by Michelangelo completed 1536–41. The Last Judgment is generally regarded as one of Michelangelo’s greatest masterpieces. Inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy, the fresco was commissioned in 1534 by Pope Clement VII (reigned 1523–34) and completed under Pope Paul III

Ten Depictions of Hell: The Last Judgment (1307) by Giotto: …to that space, however, is The Last Judgment, which covers the entire west wall. Influenced by Christian eschatology, Giotto creates a contrast between the blessed on the lower left side, who are ushered toward heaven by kindly angels, and the damned on the lower right, who are tormented by demons…

Fra Angelico: San Domenico period: …works such as the large The Last Judgment (1440–45) and The Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1430–32), for example, the human figures receding toward the rear themselves create a feeling of space similar to that in the paintings of Angelico’s great Florentine contemporary Masaccio. The earliest work by Angelico that…

John Grisham: Other novels: …fiction, with The Summons (2002), The Last Juror (2004), The Appeal (2008), The Litigators (2011), The Racketeer (2012), and Gray Mountain (2014) among his later works in the genre. In Sycamore Row (2013)—a follow-up to A Time to Kill, centering on the lawyer from that book, Jake Brigance—Grisham returned to…

Gillian Anderson: Films: The House of Mirth and The Last King of Scotland: …drama The Mighty Celt (2005); The Last King of Scotland (2006), which centres on Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; and Johnny English Reborn (2011), a spy spoof starring Rowan Atkinson.

Richard Dreyfuss: The Last Laugh and Astronaut were among his films released in 2019.

History of film: Germany: …was Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh, 1924), a film in the genre of Kammerspiel (“intimate theater”), that made him world-famous. Scripted by Carl Mayer and produced by Erich Pommer for UFA, Der letzte Mann told the story of a hotel doorman who is humiliated by the loss of…

The Last Leaf, short story by O. Henry, published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. “The Last Leaf” concerns Johnsy, a poor young woman who is seriously ill with pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the wall outside her window loses all its leaves, she will

Ugo Foscolo: …lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802; The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, 1970) contains a bitter denunciation of that transaction and shows the author’s disgust with Italy’s social and political situation. Some critics consider this story the first modern Italian novel.

Janette Turner Hospital: Like her previous novels, The Last Magician (1992) offers a diversity of ideas along with the mystery at its plot’s centre. Oyster (1996) is an eerie and complex novel about an underground community willing to do anything to keep its profitable opal fields a secret. The political thrillers Due…

I Am Legend: …the first in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price as Neville, followed by The Omega Man (1971), with the Neville role played by Charlton Heston, and last a 2007 version starring Will Smith as Neville. The first version is most faithful to the book, which, in…

Jay Leno: …cast member of the sitcom Last Man Standing (2015–21). In 2021 Leno began hosting a reboot of the classic TV game show You Bet Your Life.

Jerry Lee Lewis: …later in his life for Last Man Standing (2006), an album of duets with a panoply of rock, blues, and country legends. A similarly conceived record, Mean Old Man, was released in 2010. Rock & Roll Time (2014) also featured a number of notable musicians, though Lewis provided the main…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: (1835), and Falkner (1837); The Last Man (1826), an account of the future destruction of the human race by a plague, is often ranked as her best work. Her travel book History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) recounts the continental tour she and Shelley took in 1814 following…

Gérard Depardieu: …Truffaut’s Le Dernier Métro (1980; The Last Metro), Loulou (1980), Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1981; The Return of Martin Guerre), Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983), Jean de Florette (1986), and its sequel, Manon des Sources (1986; Manon of the Spring). He starred in Camille Claudel (1989), and in 1990 he…

Pablo Picasso: Early years: …a dark, moody “modernista” painting, Last Moments (later painted over), showing the visit of a priest to the bedside of a dying woman, a work that was accepted for the Spanish section of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in that year. Eager to see his own work in place and…

Last Mountain Lake, lake in south central Saskatchewan, Canada, which drains southward to the Qu’Appelle River. Named after a hill 12 mi (19 km) to the east, the lake averages only 2 mi in width but extends northward for nearly 60 mi. It has an area of 89 sq mi (231 sq km). Since the establishment

Chevy Chase: Film struggles and Community: In 2017 he appeared in The Last Movie Star, a well-received drama starring Burt Reynolds.

Ethan Hawke: …Seymour Bernstein, and the docuseries The Last Movie Stars (2022), which centers on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Kris Kristofferson: Film career and the Highwaymen: …role as a singer in The Last Movie (1971), directed by Dennis Hopper. His first notable performance was in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), in which he played the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid opposite James Coburn. He played the romantic lead in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live…

surname, name added to a “given name” (also called the "first name"). In many cases the surname is inherited and held in common by members of a family. Originally, many surnames identified a person by his connection with another person, usually his father (Johnson, MacDonald); others gave his

Sarah Polley: …Junior Brown (1997), Don McKellar’s Last Night (1998), and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). She seemed poised for stardom in the United States after her work in Doug Liman’s Go (1999) and Audrey Wells’s Guinevere (1999) earned her rave reviews and major industry buzz. Yet she eschewed mainstream fame and gave…

Latin American literature: Post-boom writers: …noche que pasé contigo (1991; The Last Night I Spent with You) is Montero’s best-known novel. Its hilarious plot involves couples who meet during a Caribbean cruise. Chaviano’s El hombre la hembra y el hambre (1998; “Man, Woman, and Hunger”) is about a young woman in contemporary Cuba who works…

Anya Taylor-Joy: Other roles from the 2020s: …singer in the 1960s in Last Night in Soho (2021), a psychological thriller directed by Edgar Wright; reteamed with The Witch director Robert Eggers in The Northman (2022), a drama about a Viking avenging his father’s murder; and joined the star-studded cast of Amsterdam, a quirky comedy directed by Russell.…

John Irving: …woman as a child, and Last Night in Twisted River (2009), which plots the bizarre course of a writer’s path to success. In One Person (2012) explores sexual identity, while Avenue of Mysteries (2015) is about a Mexican writer’s remembrance of his bizarre past. In 2022 Irving published his 15th…

Jordan Peele: Peele cocreated the comedy series The Last O.G. (2018–21), starring Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish, before writing, producing, and directing the horror film Us (2019). It centres on a middle-class family headed by Adelaide and Gabe (Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke) who find themselves under attack by their own doppelgängers.…

Tilda Swinton: Orlando and The Deep End: …eight of Jarman’s films, including The Last of England (1988), a commentary on the state of the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1991).

Sigrid Nunez: First short stories and novels: The Last of Her Kind (2006) centers on the relationship between two women who meet as roommates at Barnard College in the 1960s and follow widely divergent life paths in response to the leftist counterculture in which they were immersed as students. Salvation City (2010)…

The Berlin Stories: …the semiautobiographical work consists of Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. title, The Last of Mr. Norris) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939).