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Floyd Salas is an American boxer and author of several works of fiction, including What Now My Love. He was born to a Spanish family in 1931. Raised in Denver, Colorado, Salas remarked that he "grew up in a house of books." Identified as a gifted...

Inanna is an ancient goddess with earliest roots in Mesopatamia. She was worshipped in cults in Akkadia, Assyria, and Babylon as well. Her fame lasted from around 4000 B.C. until 5000 A.D. She is the goddess of love, fertility, and beauty as well...

Director Alex Garland's mind-bending, intellectual sci-fi Annihilation released to controversy. Allegations of whitewashing and studio meddling plagued the film, yet it was a massive critical success -- but did dismally financially.

Nevertheless,...

The Exorcist is the most profitable horror movie of all time, and possibly one of the most disturbing. It was released in 1973, and stars Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow and Jason Miller. It was developed from the book of the same name...

The German Girl is a historical fiction novel written by Armando Lucas Correa. Correa is a Cuban author and journalist, and this novel was first published on October, 2016.

In terms of narrative, The German Girl takes place in two distinct yet...

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. "The New Colossus" is a sonnet written in 1883 by American poet Elizabeth Lazarus, but most people know only this snippet, used to represent the American dream that hundreds of immigrants were...

Six Shooter is a 27 minute 2004 short film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The central actors include Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, and Domhnall Gleeson. McDonagh's film went on to win an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film....

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a play written by English playwright and director Martin McDonagh in 1996. McDonagh was born to an Irish family in London in 1970. Ireland would go on to play a central role in much of McDonagh's work, with several...

Nothing is Janne Teller's first book for young adults, and like her previous books with a more adult leaning, are philosophical adventures that ask more questions than they answer. Nothing, though, has far more in common with William Golding's ...

Stevie Smith was a British poet and author of three novels, including Novel on Yellow Paper. She was born in 1902 in Northeastern England. Her parents divorced when she was young, and as a result she lived with several extended family members....

Marilyn is a book written by Filipino-American author Amanda Ngoho Reavey. It is her first novel, centering around the immigrant and Asian-American identity.

Reavey's creation is a multi-media project with poetry, photographs, visual media, and...

"The Scrutiny" or "The Scrutinie", in its older English form, is a poem written by the English poet Richard Lovelace. The year of publication of this particular poem is unknown, but Richard Lovelace wrote poems throughout his entire life, which...

“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” is a poem written by Craig Raine, an English poet known for his work in Martian poetry. Raine studied at Oxford New College, serving as a professor there, and later becoming the editor of the Areté newspaper,...

This particular poem by Mary Wroth appears in her groundbreaking never-completed prose romance The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania which nevertheless was partially published in 1621. This massive work is universally recognized as the first prose...

The Death of Woman Wang is a book written by Jonathan Spence and published in 1979. It takes place in 17th century Northern China, in the province of T’an-ch’eng. The book was well-received by critics.

Spence's described events take place in a...

The Romance of the Shop is a novel penned in 1888 by Amy Levy. It is one of the first novels that illuminates the struggles of the New Women, one of the first Feminist movements that gained traction in the United States. The novel's protagonists...

Pedagogy of the Oppressed is an educational philosophical book written by Paulo Freire and translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. The book was first published in 1968 and was translated to English two years later. Paulo Freire is a Brazilian...

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia was declared in 2015 to be one of the top ten eating disorder books of all time. This memoir was beaten to the number one spot only by Clare Beeken's 2001 account of her journey from anorexia to compulsive...

Published in 1984, The Barracks Thief is a war novel written by the American author Tobias Wolff. Published shortly after the end of the Vietnam War, the novel takes place in the decade before its publication. Following not the story of one, but...

The Band's Visit is a stage musical written by David Yazbek, based on a book by Itamar Moses. The book was itself based on the Israeli film The Band's Visit. The musical first opened off Broadway before opening at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in...

Ray Russell is an American author born on September 4, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Despite Russell’s massive success in the literary world, he did not always work as a writer. After graduating high school, he served in the Air Force and...

God Help The Child is American author Toni Morrison's eleventh novel. It was published in 2015, Before this book's publication, in April, the literary world was given a small taster of the literary feast that was to come, when The New Yorker...

John Milton was an English writer born on December 9, 1608. As a child and young adult, Milton was an avid reader and traveled often, which played a great role in shaping his beliefs and political ideologies. He is known for capitalizing on the...

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is a novel published in 2011 and written by British author and nurse Christine Watson. The book follows a typical marriage-problem plot, when Ezikiel and Blessing have a father that is cheating on their mother. With much...