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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a mixture of comedy and horror based on the musical and the book of the same title, directed by Jim Sharman. The movie is a satiric take on the movies from the first half of the twentieth century, with horror and...

“Sunshine State” is a short story which is a part of the collection called “Everything Change an Anthology of Climate Fiction” written by Adam Flynn and Andrew Dana Hudson and published in 2016. The authors categorize the story in the so-called...

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The relationship between art and religion has been a topic of great interest and debate for centuries. In the context of Christianity, the discussion of art and its relationship to the Bible has been particularly significant. Francis...

The “Spider and the Fly” and other poems is a picture book by Mary Howitt. The book’s genre is imaginary. “Spider and the Fly” is a warning narrative about flattery. Howitt personifies both the spider and the fly to caution people against falling...

Arthur O’Shaughnessy was a British poet and zoologist, known also for his significant work with reptiles which would result in his name a part of scientific names of several types of reptiles. In the poetry department he is most known for his poem...

Phillip K. Dick was one of the most prominent American science fiction authors. Ubik is a science fiction novel published in 1969 and is revered as one of the greatest of the author’s science fiction work.

It is set in a futuristic world in the...

Bronwen Wallace was a Canadian whose work in poetry impacted many people during the last two decades. Most of his work touch on women's roles. Wallace articulates the emotions that are concealed underneath the surface of everyday activities. The...

Sarah Kay is an American poet, known in particular for her spoken word poetry. She was born in 1988 and has founded a group called V.O.I.C.E, which seeks to educate people using spoken word poetry. Kay has performed spoken word poetry herself for...

The House That Jack Built is a psychological horror art film directed by Lars von Trier, and was released on 14 May 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars a large ensemble cast, including notable actors Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, and...

The Lodger and Other Stories is a collection of stories written by Svava Jakobsdottir, an Icelandic author who is known for her use of magical realism, and her exploration of Icelandic culture. She specifically explores the shift the country has...

"Desiderata" is a prose-poem written in the early 1920s by writer Max Ehrman. Although it wasn't particularly well-known at the time, it gained popularity thanks to recordings in the 1960s and 1970s and is now known as an inspiring poem promoting...

The Heat of the Day is a novel written by Irish-British author, Elizabeth Bowen. The book was released in the United Kingdom in 1948. It was preceded by The Death of the Heart (1938), and followed on by A World of Love (1955).

The book follows on...

The Collected Short Stories is a collection of 49 short stories written by Satyajit Ray. Originally published in the native Bengali language in the 1960s, the collection has since been translated by Gopa Majumdar. He did an excellent job at...

The Czar’s Spy, often subtitled The Mystery of a Silent Love is a thriller/mystery novel written by Anglo-French journalist and author William Tufnell Le Queux, and published in 1905.

Le Queux was born on 2 July 1864 in London, UK. He had a range...

Benjamin Zephaniah is a British Jamaican poet known for his dub poetry and anti-empire stance. Having grown up in Birmingham to an underprivileged neighbourhood of predominantly fellow Jamaicans, Zephaniah struggled a lot, academically, throughout...

Isobel Dixon is a British South African poet, who was acclaimed for her poetry during the early 2000s. Presently, she has permanently relocated to Cambridge, England and often uses the stark contrast between her birth country and the United...

Sujata Bhatt is a well-known poet across India, America, and Europe. Being an Indian-born writer, most of her poems are preoccupied with cultural identity. Bhatt has also written several poems touching the theme of immigration and belonging. This...

Poems and Fancies is a work by Margaret Cavendish, where she explores natural, science, and mathematical philosophy. Cavendish released these poems when politics and war were ravaging most parts of Britain. The poetry reveals a fidgety and...

Louise Erdrich gives the story of Fleur Pillager, a young woman who embarks on a journey to the city to avenge the stealing of her land. Pillager makes her way to the home of James Mauser, the suspected thief. Before leaving for the city, she...

It is more than reasonable to say that Chretien de Troyes is one of the best-known Medieval authors (he is thought to have created the character of Lancelot). And Perceval, the Story of the Grail was supposed to be his fifth verse. Alas, the verse...

The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem written by Robert Henryson sometime in the 15th-century. The poem was translated into modern English by Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, in 2009.

The poem follows the life of Trojan woman, Cresseid, who...

Vathek is a Gothic novel written by English novelist William Beckford. The book was first published in 1786, with the original title being "An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript." Originally, it was claimed the novel was translated from...

The Black Atlantic is a non-fiction historical book about a distinct "black Atlantic" culture and identity, which includes aspects of African, Caribbean, American, and British cultures simultaneously. The book was published in 1993 by Harvard...

Sir Orfeo is a Middle English narrative lay written by an anonymous author in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a retelling of the story of the ancient Greek Prophet, Orpheus, and his brave quest to rescue his wife from the Fairy King.

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