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Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised in a family that strongly valued science considering his father was an engineer and instilled in him a passion for the subject. After graduating from...

Andy Tennant is an American film director born on June 15, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973, he attended the University of Southern California to study theater. His first venture into show...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the final third of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns that transformed Clint Eastwood from another TV star failing to make the leap to the big screen into pop culture icon. The first two films in this trilogy (a...

Cool Hand Luke is an American film directed by television journeyman Stuart Rosenberg. Released in November 1967, it was the first major studio production that Rosenberg ever directed. The film gestated during development with the guiding hand of...

The Annals was written by the ancient Roman orator and historian Tacitus between the years 118 and 123. Divided into 18 books (some divisions place it at 16 volumes), The Annals is a history of Rome in the first century stretching from the demise...

One-Bedroom Solo is a compilation of poetry and other works by Latina writer Sheila Maldonado. It was published in 2011 by Fly by Night Press, and is her debut poetry collection.

The poems Maldonado wrote in One-Bedroom Solo are deeply personal,...

Jason Koo is a New Yorker by birth and a Clevelander by nurture whose three collections of poetry published between 2009 and 2018 has received significant critical acclaim as well as a growing audience. Koo’s academic credentials are beyond...

Anne Carson is a renowned Canadian poet and scholar. After dropping out of the University of Toronto twice, she eventually earned her BA, MA, and PhD in Classics. She has taught at many popular universities within the US and Canada, such as the...

A View from the Bridge is one of Arthur Miller’s most famous plays, renowned for its intensity of passion and echoes of Greek tragedy.

The work grew out of Miller’s fascination with Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood only a few blocks away from...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is a novel by Maggie O'Farrell that was first published in her native Britain in 2006. It is a courageous novel that deals with the complex and sometimes unspoken subject of madness, specifically in women, and the...

The seventh novel of American novelist Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind was published in April 2005. The audiobook edition won the Audio Publishers Association's 2006 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction.

A Slight Trick of the Mind centers...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape focuses on a small town in Iowa called Endora, and tells the tale of a dyfunctional family living in this closed off community where small meaningless parts of everyday life hold literary significance. Published in...

Born in 1895 in Ukraine, Zoshchenko was a Soviet writer. He was a member of the literary group The Serapion Brothers, whose members were highly influenced by the works of science fiction writer and political satirist, Yevgeni Zamyatin. Humor...

Pedro Almodovar's transcendent Talk to Her stars Javier Cámara as Benigno Martín, Darío Grandinetti as Marco Zuluaga, Leonor Watling as Alicia Roncero, and Rosario Flores as Lydia González. It tells the story of male nurse Benigno and...

Set against the dramatic historical backdrop of the Vietnam War, The Wednesday Wars is a young adult novel written by Gary D. Schmidt published in 2007. It won a Newbery Honor medal in 2008 and was also nominated for the 2010 Rebecca Caudill Young...

Jean Blewett was a writer and journalism who advocated for the rights of woman in the 19th and 20th century. She was born to a Scottish family near Lake Erie in Ontario, Canada in 1862 (this is often erroneously suggested to be 1872). Unlike many...

Christopher Soto, also known as Loma, is a contemporary US poet, activist and writer who was born in Los Angeles, California and now resides in Brooklyn, New York. They describe themselves as a 'queer latin@ punk poet', and prefer the pronouns...

The BFG was written in 1982 by Roald Dahl. Dahl was a well-known author at this point, having already published popular books such as Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Danny, the Champion of the World. These books...

Children of Men is a British-American dystopian, science-fiction, thriller film directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and released in 2006. The screenplay is loosely based on P.D. James' 1992 novel The Children of Men, though there are some...

In conversations concerning psychoanalysis and psychology, the first name that comes to mind is most likely Sigmund Freud. Freud was an Austrian neurologist as well as the founder of psychoanalysis. He set up his clinical practice in Vienna and...

David Foster Wallace is an American novelist born on February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York. He was raised in a family of academics as both his parents were teachers. After graduating high school, he attended Amherst College to study English and...

Published on April 24th, 2012, Farther Away is an eclectic collection of essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen, a winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize among many other prestigious awards.

A New York Times reviewer wrote...

The winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Empire Falls is a novel written by American author Richard Russo. It was published in 2001, making it one of Russo's earlier works.

Empire Falls is primarily about a man named Miles Roby and his...

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. As a child, she was always immersed in the world of books and literature. Her early influences include Lewis Carroll, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Bronte, and Henry...