One of Rice's most famous novels is Taltos, which was published in 1994 as the third installment in her Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Anne Rice is arguably best known for the novel Interview with a Vampire, which was adapted into a film of...

Lasher, which was published by Knopf in 1993, is the second novel in acclaimed author Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. It tells the story of Dr. Rowan Mayfair, who in the previous novel in the trilogy (The Witching Hour) had...

Anne Rice's The Witching Hour is the first novel in her Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Published by Knopf in 1990, the novel tells the story of Dr. Rowan Mayfair, a talented neurosurgeon from San Francisco, California. For much of her life,...

Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez is a novel published in 2022. It is set against a very unique backdrop: a Native American community in Maine, United States. Fundamentally, it is an exploration of what it means to be a Native American...

Originally published in April 2021, The Music of Bees is a debut novel written by author and beekeeper Eileen Garvin. It is set in the small town of Hood River in Oregon where Garvin also resides. She derives her stories from her own experiences...

Set in London, England in 1965, Grame Macrae Burnet's bestselling novel Case Study tells the story of a young girl who believes her sister's psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has coaxed her into suicide. To try and figure out what really...

Love Marriage is a contemporary novel written by British author Monica Ali. It was published in February of 2022 by Virago Press. In her fifth novel, the author explores the subjects of the immigrant experience and cultural diversity in Britain....

Although Harold Pinter's No Man's Land was by no means one of his most well-known or popular plays, it was widely read, viewed, and well-received when first produced and published in 1975. A tells the story of Hirst, a man in his sixties. Hirst is...

NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory is a novel published in 2022. The novel was partially inspired by the rise and fall of Robert G. Mugabe, the now former (and deceased) President of Zimbabwe. Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for nearly four decades...

Booth is a historical novel by Karen Joy Fowler originally published in March 2022. As the title suggests, the subject of the novel is America’s most famous killer, one of history’s most famous assassins, and, arguably perhaps, the one single...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a fictional debut novel by Maddie Mortimer, published in March 2022 to highlight the life of a cancer patient, mediation on sickness and death. The novel precisely offers a fervent coming-to-age narrative through...

The Colony by Magee is a follow-up novel to her earlier book titled The Undertaking, which was earlier selected for the Women's Prize in the Irish book honors. The Undertaking novel was an emotional book that explored the lives of ordinary Germans...

After Sappho is a biographical book set in Italy in the 1880s. The narrative voice in this novel is inspired by Virginia Woolf's biographical essay "A Sketch of the Past," which talks about her infinite age, instincts, and rapturous pleasure as a...

Simon the Cyrenian Speaks is a poem by American poet Countee Cullen about the titular speaker from the bible scripture. It originally appeared in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse edited by Harriet Monroe in May 1924. Cullen nurtured the idea that Simon...

“Thoughts in a Zoo” is a poem composed by Countée Cullen. Cullen was one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, which is a comprehensive term covering a multitude of African American artists that came to prominence in the 1920s. Cullen...

Countee Cullen's life was wrought with hardship and pain from an early age. He was brought by who many historians consider to be his paternal grandmother to Harlem, New York at the age of nine. His grandmother raised him until he was 15 when she...

"A Brown Girl Dead" is a poem by Countee Cullen. Cullen's poem was initially written in 1923 and published in 1933.

Born in 1903, Countee Cullen was one of the most important voices in the 20th century and in the Harlem Renaissance, in which he...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame was written sometime between 1374 and 1385, making it one of Chaucer's earliest works. Written in Middle English, The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long and tells the story of an unnamed poet who one day...

Told from a first person point of view, author Henry James' The Figure in the Carpet was published in 1896 and tells the story of a man (the unnamed narrator, who is a literary critic for a local newspaper), who meets his favorite author and pours...