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The Middleman and Other Stories is a collection of stories by Bharati Mukherjee published in 1988. The stories vary in length but all of them are fairly short. As the title implies the first story is called The Middleman. There are eleven stories...

Annie Dillard is an American writer born on April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her autobiography entitled An American Childhood (1987) thoroughly details her childhood during which she was heavily inspired by the creativity of her...

The Invention of Wings is a historical fiction novel written by Sue Monk Kidd. It was published on January 7, 2014. Kidd is an American author, and the author of the celebrated book The Secret Life of Bees.The novel talks about a girl called Sarah...

This disturbing chronicle of the eight-week period spanning April and May of 1945, during the Russian invasion of Berlin, was first published in 1953 and then promptly vanished, not re-surfacing again until it was re-published in Germany some...

Warren Buffett is one of those rare things; an almost impossibly successful investor with a Midas touch and an Everyman appeal that keeps him accessible and therefore inspirational to the average investor, or wannabe investor. He is an investor,...

Thomas Merton was born in France in 1915. During the 1930’s he was working for the communist cause, in 1941 he became a Trappist monk in Kentucky and he published his first collection of verse, Thirty Poems, in 1944. By the time of his death in...

The Confusions of Young Torless is a fiction novel written by Robert Musil. It was first published in 1906. Robert Musil is an Austrian writer who has written several books, and one of the most important of his was The Man Without Qualities, which...

The Hoover Institution states that Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" is "the starting point for any serious study of the First World War." It not only details the events but shows the complex connections and political relationships that led...

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a work of historical fiction published in 1947. It is a collection of short stories written by the Polish author Tadeusz Borowski. Borowski was a writer and journalist and started working on the...

Testament of Youth is the first book in the overall memoir of Vera Brittain, an English nurse, writer, and pacifist. It covers her earlier life from 1900-1925, working as a nurse during the First World War.

In Testament of Youth, Brittain...

Written by Spanish Nobel Prize laureate Camilo Jose Cela, The Family of Pascual Duarte is a novel revolving around "tremendismo", a style of writing which focuses on the characters' pain and suffering. Met with public backlash, the first few...

I Served the King of England is a 1971 novel written by Bohumil Hrabal. Written during a period of intense censorship, the book was not officially published until the 1980's. It remains an important piece of Czech literature, and was adapted into...

Morgan Spurlock set out to eat McDonald's food three times a day for 30 days. His choice in doing so is based on the increase in obesity in Americans which has spread to a level considered to now be an epidemic. Spurlock also wanted to find proof...

The Tain is actually the abbreviated title of the Irish legend of Tain Bo Cuailnge, or The Cattle Raid Of Cooley. It is one of the earliest and most enduring examples of Irish literature and it is considered an epic despite the fact that it is...

Love and Vertigo is a novel by Malaysian-born Australian novelist Hsu-Ming Teo. It was published in 2000 and was the recipient of the Australian Vogel's Literary Award.

The plot of Love and Vertigo revolves around a young Australian woman named...

Tik-Tok is a satirical science fiction novel published in 1983, written by renowned sci-fi author John Sladek. Sladek, who died in 2000, was known for his quirky and entertaining writing which has humor and cynicism in equal measure. Both are...

To understand Audre Lorde's poetry, one just has to be sincere. She's not writing anything incredibly profound, but she is writing the truth. Based on her own experiences, Lorde writes to dispel the lies which people tell themselves. She was a...

Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer born in New Delhi in 1961. In India, there was not a great deal of opportunity to break out as a writer, so he decided to pursue his bachelor’s degree at Pomona College in California. Afterward, he...

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a 1999 collection of short stories written by American author Nathan Englander. Englander is a writer who has published four books and won several prizes, international and local, for his excellent work. His...

David and Goliath is a non-fiction psychology book written by Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell. The book was first published on September 1, 2011. Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist born in England but lived most of his life and spent his university...

Free Love and Other Stories is an eclectic short story collection by British author Ali Smith. Published as Smith's first book in 1995, it won the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award.

Free Love and Other Stories contains 12 short stories,...

A Single Man is a novel by English-American author Christopher Isherwood written in 1964. The novel is set in Southern California during 1962 and tells the story of George, a British professor working at a university in Los Angeles. George is...

A Single Man is a movie directed by Tom Ford based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It is told from the point of view of George, (Colin Firth), who is single for a number of reasons. He is single because he is not married...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks. The movie is an adaptation of the play of the same name by legendary playwright Tennessee Williams which earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. The movie met with success both...