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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum was adapted for the big screen in 1975 from the German language novel of the same name by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's foremost post-War writers, and the recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Grain is a collection of poem written by John Glenday and published in 2009. Glenday's poetry style is quite lyrical, and he infuses many emotions into his writing. Some of the most interesting poems within Grain include a rendering of the popular...

First published in 1990, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment explores the intersectionality of race, gender, and class within the framework of black feminist theory. Written by sociologist and scholar...

Based on Jordan Belfort's book of the same name, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) tells the story of Belfort's (as portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio) career as a stockbroker and his time at his own firm, Stratton Oakmont, where he and...

When Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates first appeared in a movie together the result was box office gold, lavishly sprinkled by the moviegoing public and critics alike; what a good idea, then, to bring the trio back together for a...

Most people are familiar with the film version of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa; fewer are familiar with the play, and some did not realize that the big screen classic was ever a play at all. Yet this is probably the most famous of Friel's...

Warm Bodies is romance novel with post-apocalyptic and zombie themes, written by Isaac Mario. The book was released on October 14, 2010 by Atria Books. This was Marion’s most notable work, having received critical acclaim from The Guardian and...

Play is one of the many experimental one-act dramatic presentations written by Samuel Beckett in a career devoted to questioning the conventions and properties of stage drama. Utilizing such standard traditional literary terminology, it is the...

The Passion of Saint Perpetua, Saint Felicitas and Their Companions is one of the oldest and also one of the most important of the texts written by early Christian martyrs. At the time, speaking out in praise of Jesus, and refusing to denounce...

Things: A Story of the Sixties, is the debut novel of the French author Georges Perec. The novel was first published in 1965 in France, under the title "Les Choses", which, in French, means "Things". Quickly after publication, the novel gained...

First published in 1992, Poor Things is a novel by the Scottish author and artist Alasdair Gray. The novel is set in the Victorian era, and takes into account some of Gray's views on inequality and relationships. The main character of the novel is...

Are people mad because of society's influence upon them, or is their insanity something that occurs from within, independent of the world and what is happening in it? This is the central question that German psychologist, philosopher and Marxist...

Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, this being her first novel publication. Published by Doubleday on 2 March 1995, the book itself stands at 381 pages. It follows the story of a girl named Ruby Lennox who...

The Grand Highway, originally titled Le grand chemin is a French movie directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, produced by Pascal Hommais and Jean Francois Lepetit and starring Richard Bohringer and Anémone. It was initially released in France in 1987,...

Everyone thinks that they know the plot of traditional fairy tales forwards, backwards and upside down; however, Roald Dahl intends to prove otherwise with the shortest book he ever wrote, Revolting Rhymes, which is a collection of poetic parodies...

Knight of Cups is a philosophical drama, sometimes with mystical notes, about screenwriter Rick. Rick is a screenwriter who cannot understand the strange things that happen around him. After his brother's death, his relationship with his father...

Woody Allen is an anomaly in the film industry. While putting out a film every two or three years is enough for a director to be considered prolific, Woody Allen was putting out a film nearly every year between 1971. While some of his most highly...

This lesser-known Dickens novel was published under the longer and more formal title of Barnaby Rudge : A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, but over the years, this has been abridged to a less unwieldy Barnaby Rudge. It is an historical novel that is...

Around 1868 Emile Zola had the idea of writing a series of novels that would be devoted to one family - Rougon-Macquart. The fates of the members of this family have been investigated for several generations. The first books from the series did...

Through and Through: Toledo Stories is written by Joseph Geha and was originally published in 1990 by Graywolf Press for the first edition and in 2009 by Syracuse University Press for the second edition.

Joseph Geha was born in 1944 in Lebanon. In...

Sonia Sanchez has published many poems and essays in multiple different magazines and newspapers. She has written many books of poetry. She has also written children’s books, short stories, plays, and essays. Many of her writings focus on black...

Michael Drayton, born in the 16th century, was an English poet who became known and actively thrived during the Elizabethan era. He was born in a small town in England near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Otherwise, very little is known about his early...

Born in raised in small town Ohio, author Toni Morrison accomplished a lot in her 88 year long life. After receiving her undergraduate degree in English from Harvard and her master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University, she went...

The Hunger Games was a monumental movie for a number of reasons; firstly, it was the first in a succession of teen-driven, dystopian science-fiction films that took the genre from the young adult section of the local library to the international...