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“Bright Star” is a romantic movie based on the life of the famous poet John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne. It was directed by the Academy Award-winning director Jane Campion and stars prolific names from the acting world.

Fanny is an outspoken...

“What have I done to deserve this” is a translated title of the Spanish movie “Que he hecho yo para merecer esto” by one of the most prolific Spanish director. The movie falls into the genre of black comedy, meaning that it portrays some serious...

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma is a provocative fable written by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, which was first published in Arabic in 1983. It was later translated into English from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies in 1992....

The Witness for the Defence is a crime and mystery novel written by English author and politician A.E.W. Mason, which was published in 1913. Despite Mason being an upper-class politician, the novel still manages to capture a depth of emotion and...

Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland which was conceived as a standalone origin story for the longtime hero/villain relationship between Batman and the Joker. Two different...

Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology is a book written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1943. As an existentialist philosopher, Sartre explores the ontological concepts of being from Martin Heidegger’s ...

Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper is based on his understanding of philosophy and reflection of thoughts. Popper applies his understanding of politics, science, and history to argue how people’s insights and objectives develop through a...

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 movie based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel, An American Tragedy. The film was directed by George Stevens and involves issues of sexual desires and class division. The story is based on a real incident where Chester...

Christopher Paolini blossomed in the already fertile world of fantasy fiction in 2003 with his novel Eragon. That book would kick off what would come to be known as The Inheritance Cycle which, as of 2021, stood at four novels in total. In 2020,...

Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher is a book that tells a story of an empire that for years has been fighting against hostile races that live in the world. The narrative is an epic fantasy genre and the author uses an imaginative world to explore...

Storm Front (The Dresden Files Book 1) is a fantasy book written by American author Jim Butcher, and was first published Penguin Putnam on April 1, 2000.

The plot follows a missing person investigation, led by the protagonist, a wizard known as...

Ruin and Rising is a fantasy action book written by Leigh Bardugo, and was first published by Macmillan on June 17, 2014. The book is the third and final installment in the Grisha trilogy and was preceded by Siege and Storm.

The book follows the...

Published in the summer of 2013, Siege and Storm is the Leigh Bardugo’s follow-up to Shadow and Bone and the middle bridge of the trilogy linking the novel to its sequel, Ruin and Rising. The Grisha Trilogy established Bardugo as a new force to be...

“Shadow and Bone” is the first book in the Grisha Trilogy, a fantasy series set in a fictional universe that brings science and magic into connection. The novel follows the main protagonist Alina as she accidentally discovers that she holds more...

The Essence of Christianity is a philosophical book written by German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, published in 1841. Feuerbach is a key religious thinker historically, and he is known for the ideas and arguments proposed in this text.

This...

God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone is an articulation of Black divinity of deliverance. Cone was a champion of black liberation theology. The book was published in 1975 and it followed his two publications, “Black Power and Black Liberation”...

Labyrinth is a musical fantasy film directed and produced by Jim Henson and George Lucas, and was distributed by Tri-Star Pictures in 1986. The film stars actress Jennifer Connelly in the role of Sarah and David Bowie as the Goblin King, Jareth.

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Banjo by Claude McKay is based on personal experience. The setting takes place in Marseille, France. McKay published the book in 1929. The book revolves around hopeless and impoverished boys spending time wandering on beaches and docks of...

Christ in Concrete by Pietro di Donato is based on a true story. Di Donato’s father died on a construction site on Good Friday. The death inspired Di Donato to write a book about the struggles experienced by bricklayers, particularly Italian...

Crisis in the Red Zone is a non-fiction book about the Ebola outbreak, which began in 2013. Written by American author Richard Preston, the book details the devastating and deadly impact the virus had, and the attempts that were made to discover a...

Schmoedipus is an anthology series by English television dramatist, Dennis Potter and was released on 1975 by BBC (United Kingdom).

The story follows the reunion of a mother, Elizabeth Carter, and her son, Glen, who she had given away at birth....

The Dressmaker is the first published novel by Rosalie Ham. Ham uses the novel to question whether remote societies play any role in the contemporary world. The novel is written in a gothic style and is set in a local town in Australia. This book...

Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow was originally published in 1961 by Houghton Mifflin. Set in Israel, the novel follows a young man named Daniel bar Jamin, who is alive at the same time that Jesus of Nazareth is. After his father is killed...

The History of Love is a novel written by American writer Nicole Krauss, and was first published by W.W. Norton & Company on May 2, 2005.

The novel revolves around the romantic life and loss of Leopold (Leo) Gursky over the course of sixty...