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Patience Agbabi is a black British female poet born in London in 1965. Some of her poems include The Doll's House, Telling Tales, and What Do Women Like Bes'? to name three out of the many published.

The Doll’s House is a very critically acclaimed...

Published in 1973, Stephen King's Carrie is an epistolary horror novel that takes the form of collected newspaper clippings, letters and diary entries to tell the tale of how bullied misfit Carrie White uses her telekinetic powers to avenge her...

Published in 1998, Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother was inspired by the death of Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl who was killed in South Africa while trying to organize the nation's first truly democratic elections. Biehl was murdered very...

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (released in 2002) is a collaboration between Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman with the goal of explaining and perhaps more importantly, debunking the growing movement...

The Diary of Anais Nin is the publication of the real manuscript diary of Anais Nin, hence the title. Nin started the diary at the age of 11 in 1914 while on a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. She started it initially...

The Prestige is one of Christopher Nolan’s famed cinematography works, staring notable actors including Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, as well as renowned musician David Bowie. The thriller was released on October 17, 2006 and distributed by...

The Mist is a novella penned by the godfather of horror writing, Stephen King. It tells the story of a mist that suddenly envelops the small town of Bridgton in Maine; the mist is not a natural phenomenon but an evil one, and it hides monsters...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote "The Blessed Damozel" when he was 19 years old. It was one of the very first poems of his career, and it later became one of the most influential poems of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The first version of "The Blessed...

The Drover's Wife (released in 2016) is a very loose reimagining of the classic short story of the same name by Henry Lawson. The play tells the story of a woman named Molly Johnson, who is very pregnant and living on a remote homestead in the...

The APUSH (AP U.S. History) textbook, currently in its Sixteenth Edition edited by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, has been a foundational resource for students studying American history. Since its inception in 1958 under the editorship of...

Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye came about at a critical moment in the history of American civil rights. Morrison began Pecola's story as a short piece in 1962; it became a novel-in-progress by 1965. It was written, as one can see from the...

Deborah Miranda's 2012 book Bad Indians is a unique one, particularly because its unique structure and because it is a mixed-genre book. To that end, the book is both a history of the authors tribe of California Indians and a memoir of the authors...

Despite his aristocratic standing, or perhaps even because of it, Lord Rochester, a courtier in the court of King Charles II of England, was known to be somewhat of a hell-raiser. A favorite poet of the monarch, he rebelled against the Puritan era...

Fingersmith could aptly be described in the following sentence: Fingersmith is a historical crime/erotic novel set during the Victorian era in Britain. The book tells the story of Sue Trinder and Maud (in the first section, Sue controls the...

A 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah is considered one of the most significant postcolonial novels in recent times. This is his fifth novel and one of the prominent works to have emerged in his canon. It was...

Kitty Hart Moxon was only fifteen years old when she was imprisoned in German death camp Auschwitz-Berkenau; seventy years later, she returns to the camp, taking with her two teenage girls the same age as she was when she first passed through the...

Published in 1973, Sula is Toni Morrison’s second novel. Like her first novel, The Bluest Eye, this one also deals with the life experiences of two black girls. Yet it does not merely address the childhood experiences but follows the girls as they...

Avatar is a science-fiction movie directed and produced by James Cameron, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was released on December 10, 2009. The film is set in the middle of the 22nd century, and follows the colonization of Pandora, a moon...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is a book of the collected speeches of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg (there are eleven of her speeches included in the book). All of her speeches involve the grave threat climate change poses to the...

From an incredibly young age, Phillis Wheatley showed an immense precocity for the written word, and gained international acclaim for her elegy "On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770." Many of Wheatley's writings center around religious...

The War of the Worlds is a science-fiction classic. First released in serial form in 1897, The War of the Worlds was later released as a book in 1898 through William Heinemann of London. Though it was published after some of Wells' major works...

Released on September 10th, 2019 (6 days prior to this writing), She Said by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey is already a best seller on Amazon -- and likely at The New York Times when they release their bestseller lists.

At its core, She...

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a lyrical Romantic ballad written by poet John Keats. An unknown speaker begins a conversation with a lonely knight on the road, reflecting the ballad's roots in an oral tradition. Employing colloquial language, the...

Richard Wright wrote only a handful of published poems during his life. However, those he did publish were incredibly important to race relations in the United States (which is the consistent theme throughout his work). Born in 1908 in Mississippi...