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Through the Glass is a memoir by Shannon Moroney published by Simon and Schuster books in 2014. The non-fiction story is about her emotional recovery after her husband was accused of brutally raping and kidnapping two women. It follows her story...

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” stands out as Ambrose Bierce's career defining short story. As a Union veteran of the Civil War, Bierce undertook a writing career that reflected his own life-changing experience in the war. Suffering a sever...

Lucille Clifton’s first collection of poetry was published the year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1969, Clifton was already over thirty and the mother of six children not even old enough for middle school yet. Once the New...

Lawyer, scholar, and activist Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, first published in 2010, is seen as nothing less than a phenomenon – a book that galvanized the debate about race in the criminal justice system in a way that had never been done...

Published in 2006, Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story confronts weighty issues—in particular, teen depression and suicide—through an unexpected combination of dark comedy and abiding hope. The novel is set in the present day, and is narrated...

Rear Window is based on a story from the February 1942 issue of Dime Detective Magazine called "It Had to be Murder", written by Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym William Irish). Alfred Hitchcock, who was a longtime fan of Woolrich's pulp...

Thirteen Reasons Why (stylized as TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY) by Jay Asher is a fictional Young Adult novel published in 2007 by Penguin Books. In July of 2011, the paperback edition became the #1 seller on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Asher's...

Published in 2009, White Is for Witching is a novel by British novelist Helen Oyeyemi. A multifaceted novel structured off gothic roots but also venturing into the supernatural genre, it intrigues and captivates with an unforgettably unique...

Americanah is the third novel of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published in 2013 after the success of her novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). Like her two prior novels, Americanah focuses on the lives of Nigerians,...

Wise Blood was the first of two novels written by Flannery O'Connor. Begun in 1947, some of its chapters appeared individually in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949 before it was published in its complete novel form...

AM Homes is an American novelist born on December 18, 1961 in Washington, DC. After graduating high school, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and later earned her MFA at the University of Iowa. She started her literary career by writing short...

Over the course of a star-studded career, Terry Eagleton has carved out a role as a pre-eminent literary theorist, critic and academic. His Literary Theory: An Introduction, first published in 1983, has sold over half a million copies, proving it...

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a highly acclaimed novel by Anne Tyler. It is a work of realistic fiction following the lives of three siblings as they grow up with a tragic household. After its publication in 1982, the book was nominated for...

Oscar Wilde’s play A Woman of No Importance opened in London on April 19, 1893, and proceeded to run for 113 performances. Successful revivals were mounted on his home turf in both 1907 and 1915. Broadway was first delighted by Wilde’s adeptly...

The final installment of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's three book dystopian trilogy, MaddAddam was published in August 2013. It concludes the storyline which started with Oryx and Crake, continuing on to The Year of the Flood.

MaddAddam...

Highly controversial and disputed, Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 novel by Philip Roth which after its publication, sent waves of shock, outrage, and dissension through both critics and the public. The book is infamous for its extremely candid...

Jemmy is a children's fictional novel by American writer Jon Hassler. It was published in 1980, making it one of Hassler's earliest works. Hassler also wrote the notable works Staggerford and Dear James.

The novel centers around 17 year old...

The first truly great “modern” documentary ever made promises what it delivers: a man in Soviet-era Russian moving about the city and capturing everything. Filmmaker Dziga Vertov essentially creates the grammar of cinema-verite with his Man with a...

In August 1831, Nat Turner led a number of his fellow slaves in a rebellion against the slave-holding population and slave-holding enablers occupying Southampton County, Virginia. Before the insurrection ended as the sun rose over Belmont...

Published in 1980 and winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1982, Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by American writer Russell Hoban. It is his most notable work, centering around a future devastated by nuclear warfare. The...

Askari was written by noteworthy author Jacob Dlamini and was published in 2014. It tells the story of small- and large-scale struggles faced during the calamity brought by Apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1991. More specifically,...

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 film directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay was co-written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The film is based on a short story by noted author Annie Proulx originally published in the New Yorker magazine almost a...

Freelance journalist by trade, Proulx wrote short stories that are a testament to her observation skills and attention to details. Her stories are born out of immaculate research which engenders stories peppered with numerous realistic minutiae...

Winnie Li is a Taiwanese-American novelist born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating high school, she attended Harvard University to study folklore and mythology. She later enrolled at the University of Ireland to obtain her masters degree...