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Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera almost certainly qualifies as a candidate for the title of the least-read novel whose story is best-known. Thanks to a never-ending supply of adaptations into other media, it would be almost impossible to...

The Talented Mr. Ripley, released in 1999, is a unique and innovative psychological thriller and drama. The film was directed and written by Anthony Minghella, a screenwriter, playwright and director. Previous to Ripley, Minghella directed ...

Homegoing is the first novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi. Following the descendants of an Asante woman named Maame, the novel paints a complex picture of the intertwined histories of Ghana and the United States from the 1700's to present...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) combines the personal and professional experiences of Ken Kesey and reflects the culture in which it was written, yet it stands strong on its own merits. Kesey developed the novel while a graduate student in...

Green Grass, Running Water is Thomas King's second novel. King began writing it in 1989 during a one-month writer's residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. The novel was published in 1993 and received positive critical reception. It was...

Why Buddhism Is True or Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a non-fiction book published in 2017 by the American author Robert Wright.

Robert Wright wrote extensively about religion and in this book...

An author of American origin, Maggie Nelson was born in 1973. She authored the work, “The Argonauts” and has currently bagged several awards, notably the 2016 Macarthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” and a 2012 Creative Capital Leadership Fellowship....

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory is a book written by Bruno Latour and published in 2005. This text presents Latour’s revolutionary theory concerning the interaction between people in a society and what he calls “...

We Have Never Been Modern is a book written by Bruno Latour, published in 1991. It was originally written and published in French, and later translated into English, in 1993. Latour is a French sociologist, philosopher, professor, and writer. He...

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable was written by Nicholas Nassim Taleb. This philosophical book was published during 2007 by Random House. It sheds light on a common characteristic of life we all encounter known as a "black...

Gender Trouble, first published in 1990 by Routledge with the title Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, is an academic piece by American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler. The book is one of the many in her series...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, written in 1989, is based on Richard Rorty’s lectures that were addressed in two sets at Trinity College, Cambridge and University College, London. He affirms that social consciousness brought on by a sense of...

This book, written in the late 1970's, is Richard Rorty's attempt to discuss his philosophy about perception and reality. The main theme of this work is that humans often confuse their perceptions about reality with reality itself, but because our...

These essays are the thoughts of a well-established German Jewish philosopher who lived from the late 19th century until September 1940. As a philosopher, he devised theories about the development of technology in relation to human progress, as...

In 1983, Frederic Jameson published an essay titled “Postmodernism and the Consumer Society.” Following extensive revision, the essay appeared a year later in the New Left Review under the title “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Capitalism....

On Photography - a collection of essays by Susan Sontag - explores what the title suggests: a take on the importance, history and nature of the medium of photography. Each essay - of which there are five - was originally circulated periodically in...

In 1964, Renaissance scholar and English Professor Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and created a revolution in the very foundation of critical theory that has since made it irrefutably one of the most...

Sigmund Freud published The Future of an Illusion in 1927 for the purpose of enlightening readers on with his analysis of the psychological operation of religious belief on society. The underlying, overarching thrust of this analysis is one of...

The Interpretation of Dreams was first published in 1900; by the time of a new edition was being prepared in thirty years later, Sigmund Freud was ready to declare in a newly composed foreword that within the covers of The Interpretation of Dreams...

Terrance Hayes is a contemporary African-American poet. Born in 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina, he was later educated at Coker College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He continued his studies and received a Master of Fine Arts...

Anselm of Canterbury, known also as St. Anselm or Anselme de Buc, was an 11th century abbot whose writings have been traditionally heralded for their logical and philosophical basis. During a time when many theologians were writing from a more...

Virginia Woolf stands out as one of the most significant and iconic female voices in the history of English literature. A key exponent of Modernism along with writers such as E.M. Forster and James Joyce, Woolf was a champion of female...

In 1611, Aemilia Lanyer broke new ground female writers when she became the first woman to publish an English-language poetry collection under her own name. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum would prove to be the only volume of poetry that Lanyer would...

In addition to having a name at least as unusual as any offspring of late 20th century celebrities and playing a key role in the hysteria leading to the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather still maintains his standing as one of the most prodigious...