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Akira is an animated Japanese movie that resides in the cyberpunk sub-genre because of its futuristic setting that juxtaposes an ever-advancing technological world with a human world that is fast degenerating and where social order is disappearing...

Shadowboxing is a collection of short stories that are connected through the main character; Michael. It is written by Tony Birch, who is an Australian poet, short story writer and novelist. Shadowboxing is Tony’s first book, and it was published...

Naked Masks is a collection of five plays by Luigi Pirandello, who is a highly celebrated dramatist. Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 and was educated in Rome. In 1889, he published his first work, a collection of poems called Mal Giocondo....

If R.K. Narayan was to go by his given name, then the cover would be an appealing hodge-podge of letters; born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami in 1906, Narayan quickly became one of India's most internationally-revered writers and was at...

The Stepford Wives is an internationally famed book written by renowned author, Ira Levin, who is also known for his bestselling book, Rosemary's Baby. The book was published by Random House in September 1972.

The book centers around the...

Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Published in 1853, the same year in which he was liberated, it covers his twelve years in servitude.

Northup recounts his life...

Animal House is a comedic film from 1978, written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller, and directed by John Landis. It was produced by Matty Simmons of National Lampoon, a humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998, and based on...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “A Musical Instrument” is a poem first published in Browning's volume Poems Before Congress. The collection was published in 1860, just one year before her death. Unlike the love sonnets of Browning’s earlier works,...

Bridge to Terabithia is a book turned movie adaptation of the book by Katherine Paterson under the same name. It is directed by Gábor Csupó and was written by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell. David L. Paterson is both the producer and...

Rock Springs is author Richard Ford's 1987 collection of short stories dealing with the effect of dysfunctional families (moms and dads) on the young male narrators. It has ten stories: "Rock Springs," "Great Falls," "Sweet Hearts," "Children,"...

Mourid Barghouti, the author of I Saw Ramallah, was born and raised in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. He is a Palestinian writer and poet. I Saw Ramallah is a book about himself and his travel in life. It was first published in the year 2000 in...

The Pickup tells the story of love between two different people and is about immigration and segregation in South Africa. The book was published in 2001 under Bloomsbury Press in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US. It is written by...

The Cave, which is originally called A caverna in its Portuguese and first edition is a fictional story about the consequences of the new age and economy written by the famous Portuguese writer José Saramago. Saramago discusses capitalism though...

The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong was published in 2017. It is written by Suchen Christine Lim who is a Singaporean writer. This is a book which talks about the prejudice, tension and taboos in Singapore. Lim has won the Singapore Literature...

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, literary critic and novelist. He is the only person that has won the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry, and he was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was close to winning every major award...

The Order of Things is a book of philosophy published in 1966 by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Foucault explains in his book that, throughout human history, there have been three constants in a human's field of study: linguistics,...

Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States (there have been three editions: the first published in 1986, a second edition published in 1994, and a third published in 2015) introduces readers to the theory of racial...

Published in 1994, Stones from the River is a novel that follows the story of main character Trudi Montag, who has to live life as a dwarf. Daughter to a mentally-challenged mother, Trudi is despised because of her appearance by her mother until...

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story is written by Luis Alberto Urrea in 2004. Urrea was born in Tijuana, but lives in Chicago now. The story follows 26 Mexicans who wanted to cross the border to the United States. They ended up in a place called the...

Published is 1767 and written by proclaimed French writer Voltaire, L'Ingénu is a satirical novella. Following the story of a character named "Child of Nature" the book focuses on themes of lost ancestry and religion. A Huron Native American,...

Written by author and journalist Dave Cullen, Columbine (originally published in 2009), examines the mass shooting at Columbine High School and the shooting's perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Primarily, the book covers the killers...

James L. Swanson and his subject, Abraham Lincoln, share the same birthday, although the author claims that this fact has nothing to do with his lifelong fascination with one of our most revered and respected presidents. Hailing from a long line...

The most famous and debatably best play the famous actor Bruce Norris has ever written was Clybourne Park. The retort to the play A Raisin in the Sun won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2012 Tony Award for Best Play and 2012 Theatre World...

The Canadian novelist Jen Sookfong Lee born and raised in the Eastside of Vancouver which is a marginalized area. She describes this place in the book The Conjoined, published in 2016. She has published many novels such as The End of East, The...