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Written on the Body is a fictional romance novel published in 1994 and written by Jeanette Winterson. An incredibly notable feat of the novel is that the narrator, who is in love with another character in the novel, never has their gender or...

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford was originally published in eight irregular installments of the magazine Household Words from 1851 to 1853 (the magazine was edited at the time by famed author Charles Dickens). Finally, it was published as a complete...

Collected during the Islamic Golden Age of the 8th to 14th century CE, One Thousand and One Nights is a book of short stories. Better known to most English speakers as Arabian Nights, A Retelling is the same collection, but translated to modern...

Kiese Laymon generally writes essays and articles for sites like ESPN, Gawker, and the New York Times. Prior to the release of Heavy: An American Memoir in 2018, he'd only written two books, both of which released in 2013: a novel called Long...

First published in 1974, "Freedom and Resentment" and Other Essays is a collection of essays by British philosopher Sir Peter Frederick Strawson, commonly known as P.F. Strawson. Strawson "was a leading member of the ordinary language school of...

Miracle on 34th Street is a Christmas classic film directed by George Seaton who also wrote the screenplay based on the story by Valentine Davies. The picture was released in 1947 and was produced by William Perlberg with a budget of $630,000. It...

The Muppet Christmas Carol was released in 1992. It was directed by Brian Henson and based off of Charles Dickens' classic novel "A Christmas Carol", with a screenplay written by Jerry Juhl. Martin G. Baker along with Henson produced the film...

Scrooge was released in 1951 and was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with a screenplay by Noel Langley which was based off of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. It stars Alastair Sim as the titular character, Mervy Johns, Hermione Baddely,...

Home Alone (1990) is one of the top-five definitive Christmas movies. Both kids and parents love it -- and that's exceedingly rare. Written and produced by the world-famous John Hughes, Home Alone tells the story of Macaulay Culkin's Kevin...

The Short Fiction of Nalo Hopkinson, better known as Skin Folk, is a 2001 collection of short stories by Jamaican-born Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson. Hopkinson's stories draw mostly from the science fiction and fantasy genres and feature aspects...

Survivors Club is a non-fiction book by Michael and Debbie Bornstein. Michael, the child in color on the front photograph of the book, was able to survive a horrible life at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. In this book, Michael details the...

In 1932, a German woman by the name of Margaret Schwartzkopf, was the guest of Mary Elizabeth Frye, in Baltimore. She was worried about her mother back in Germany, who was ill, but she was unable to go home to see her because of the increasingly...

Lydia Davis is an American writer and translator. Davis was born in 1947 and grew up in a very intellectual environment as the daughter of Hope Hale Davis, an American feminist and writer and Robert Gorham David, a university professor. She has...

Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (first published in 1959) tells the story of the eponymous Duddy Kravitz, a smart, sassy, and scheming hustler who spends most of his day going to school at a local Jewish academy and working...

Mark Twain is one of the most famous figures in American literature, and is known for his novels like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. What is not as widely known about him is the surprising amount of essays...

Released in 1988, Mississippi Burning is a crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker. Though released in the late 1980's, it features some of America's touchiest Civil Right's Era topics - a disappearance of three civil rights activists is met...

“Sunny Prestatyn” is one of the poems in Philip Larkin’s poetry volume called The Whitsun Weddings, which is a collection of 32 poems published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber. The poem was believed to be first published in 1964, though...

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book written by Frederick Brooks about Software project management. It was published by Addison-Wesley in 1975 and was re-published in 1982 and 1995. It is the first book in a planned...

The Valley of Amazement is a novel of two halves: the first, written from the point of view of Violet, the abandoned daughter of a courtesan house owner mother who abruptly leaves Shanghai to fly to San Francisco where she is able at last to meet...

Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) takes place in 1931 and follows three girls who live in Australia near the so-called rabbit-proof fence. The town is called Jigalong and the girls are half-Aboriginal; they initially follow a traditional...

Ross Gay is a prolific young writer that gained prominence in the poetic circles of America. He published several books and recently started teaching at the University of Indiana. He is further known for his outspoken opinions on social...

Malone Dies was first published in French in 1951 under the title Malone Meurt. Samuel Beckett the author of the novel native to Ireland, later translated the book into English so that it could reach a wider audience. Malone Dies is the second of...

Bad Feminist is a collection of essays by Roxane Gay. It was published in 2014 by Harper Perennial in English. The book confronts feminist ideologies, what a good feminist is and what a person can and can’t do, even though they love doing it....

I Love Dick is a book written by the American author named Chris Kraus. The book was published in 1997 by Semiotext(e) and republished in 2006. The book is written from the writer’s perspective (Chris Kraus), as her marriage falls apart when she...