Honor thy Father, which is also known as Con-Man, is a Filipino film that talks about tales of a Filipino family, where the father was forced to change his behavior after losing his savings in a law-pyramid scheme. The movie was directed by Erik...

The Selection is a young-adult dystopian romance novel by #1 New York Times-Bestselling author Kiera Cass, originally published by HarperTeen on April 24, 2012. It is the first book in the pentalogy by the same name. The Selection is followed by ...

Written for children between seven and nine (Rowling remarked that the book is a "political fairytale for slightly younger children"), The Ickabog tells the story of a fantasy land called Cornucopia, which is plagued by an evil creature known as...

Playwright Miguel Pinero wrote the play Short Eyes during his time in prison. The term used as a title of the play is a slang used in connection to pedophiles, more precisely as a name for child molesters.

The play is set in prison and it follows...

On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, a luxury cruise liner thought to be “unsinkable,” collided with an iceberg and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic. More than 1,500 of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard lost their lives. Just nine days later,...

Detained in the Desert is a play that chronicles the parallel lives of two completely different people who are having the same experience at the same time. Sandi, a second generation Latin woman, and Lou, a Howard Stern-like talk show host with a...

Described by the acclaimed twentieth-century poet and literary critic W.H. Auden as being "modern without being too modern," Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential and important writers in English literary history. Today, nearly a century...

Although it's not especially well-known, The Saga of Gosta Berling is an exceptional novel which tells the of the eponymous Gösta Berling. Berling is a defrocked priest (a person who has been stripped of the privileges associated with being a...

Educated is a memoir written by Tara Westover. The story recounts Tara's unusual upbringing as the daughter of extremist Mormon survivalists. Westover's father, referred to as "Gene" in the memoir, does not allow his seven children to go to school...

Hood Feminism is a collection of essays by Mikki Kendall, who takes issue with feminism in general because, she asserts, it only really works for some women. In fact, she feels that women actually oppress other women - which is an...

Where the Wild Things Are is a children's book published in 1963 and written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. When it was initially released, it was met with mixed reviews for its honest portrayal of child anger. Some critics argued it would...

After a decade of reading, research, and writing, Donna Tartt published her highly-anticipated third novel, The Goldfinch. The 2013 novel tells the story of Theo Decker, and centers around loss, death and the titular painting, The Goldfinch.

The...

Despite it being critically acclaimed, Mikhail Red's Birdshot (2016) is not all that well-known. It tells the story of a young farm girl called Maya, who lives in the countryside and one day accidentally kills a Philippine eagle - a majestic...