Although Harold Pinter's No Man's Land was by no means one of his most well-known or popular plays, it was widely read, viewed, and well-received when first produced and published in 1975. A tells the story of Hirst, a man in his sixties. Hirst is...

NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory is a novel published in 2022. The novel was partially inspired by the rise and fall of Robert G. Mugabe, the now former (and deceased) President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for nearly four decades...

Booth is a historical novel by Karen Joy Fowler originally published in March 2022. As the title suggests, the subject of the novel is America’s most famous killer, one of history’s most famous assassins, and, arguably perhaps, the one single...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a fictional debut novel by Maddie Mortimer, published in March 2022 to highlight the life of a cancer patient, mediation on sickness and death. The novel precisely offers a fervent coming-to-age narrative through...

The Colony by Magee is a follow-up novel to her earlier book titled The Undertaking, which was earlier selected for the Women's Prize in the Irish book honors. The Undertaking novel was an emotional book that explored the lives of ordinary Germans...

After Sappho is a biographical book set in Italy in the 1880s. The narrative voice in this novel is inspired by Virginia Woolf's biographical essay "A Sketch of the Past," which talks about her infinite age, instincts, and rapturous pleasure as a...

Simon the Cyrenian Speaks is a poem by American poet Countee Cullen about the titular speaker from the bible scripture. It originally appeared in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse edited by Harriet Monroe in May 1924. Cullen nurtured the idea that Simon...

“Thoughts in a Zoo” is a poem composed by Countée Cullen. Cullen was one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, which is a comprehensive term covering a multitude of African American artists that came to prominence in the 1920s. Cullen...

Countee Cullen's life was wrought with hardship and pain from an early age. He was brought by who many historians consider to be his paternal grandmother to Harlem, New York at the age of nine. His grandmother raised him until he was 15 when she...

"A Brown Girl Dead" is a poem by Countee Cullen. Cullen's poem was initially written in 1923 and published in 1933.

Born in 1903, Countee Cullen was one of the most important voices in the 20th century and in the Harlem Renaissance, in which he...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame was written sometime between 1374 and 1385, making it one of Chaucer's earliest works. Written in Middle English, The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long and tells the story of an unnamed poet who one day...

Told from a first person point of view, author Henry James' The Figure in the Carpet was published in 1896 and tells the story of a man (the unnamed narrator, who is a literary critic for a local newspaper), who meets his favorite author and pours...

Henry James wrote The Wings of the Dove in 1902. It is a novel centered around the life of heiress Milly Theale, and the way in which those around her behave when she becomes seriously ill. It is a study in human motivation, as some of Milly's...

The Europeans is a satirical short novel by American author Henry James. Initially published serially in The Atlantic Monthly, it was later published as a novel in 1878 by Macmillan Publishers and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel is a comedic...

The Bostonians is a satirical novel by American author Henry James initially published serially in The Century Magazine, it was later published in 1886 as a book by Macmillan Publishers. The novel tells a melancholy seriocomedy surrounding Basil...

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is a historical fiction novel written by American-British author Henry James. The novel explores the politics of marriage including secrets, unsaid grievances, and expectations. It has a film adaptation with the...

The Plot is a mystery thriller novel written by American novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz. It was published by Celadon Books in May 2021. The book is Korelitz’s seventh novel and made it on the New York Times Bestseller list and The Tonight Show...

The Latecomer is a contemporary fiction novel written by New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz. Celadon Books published the book on May 31, 2022, as the eighth novel by the author. It was reported that the book will be adapted for...

The Last Cuentista is a novel written by an American author, Donna Barba Higuera, and published in 2021. It is a science fiction, space travel dystopian novel that falls into the middle-grade age range. It is a second novel by the author, who rose...

The Committed is a historical novel by American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. It was published in 2021 by Grove Press as the second in a series. The novel was preceded by The Sympathizer, which was a commercial success and won the 2016 Pulitzer...

The Spanish Love Deception is a novel by Elena Armas published in February 2022 by Atria Books. It is a romantic comedic novel steeped in the trope of couples who hate at first sight and then gradually come to realize they actually love each...

Wahala is a debut novel by Nikki May, a Nigerian-British author, and it follows three Nigerian-British friends, their lives, the struggles they face, and the friendships they try to uphold. Roughly translated, the Nigerian word wahala means ...

Miles Morales is a novel written by the award-winning author Jason Reynolds, who decided to create his own version of the well-known Spider-Man world. The novel follows an African American and Hispanic boy called Miles who goes to the Brooklyn...