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Jeffrey Rosen’s Conversations with RBG is a biographical book on the life of the second female on the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book takes the form of eight private and public interviews with Ginsburg and sheds light on her...
It took twenty-three years on the bench before Ruth Bader Ginsburg published her first book in 2016; the book, a collection of her speeches and writings, included her earliest opinions formulated in the eighth grade. Although the works contained...
On the Basis of Sex is a biographical drama film based on the legal life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to ever retain the position. The movie stars Felicity Jones as Ginsburg, and was directed by Mimi...
RBG, abbreviated for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a 2018 documentary film based on the titular character, Ginsburg who was the second female Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice. The film was produced by Betsy West and produced by CNN....
The Swan Book is a post-apocalyptical novel based on the suffering of Indigenous Australians throughout history. The author, Alexis Wright – an indigenous Australian herself – based the story on her own experiences and mistreatments.
The story...
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is a novel by Wilkie Collins. It was originally published in 1879 and since then there have been other editions published by Borgo Press in 2002 in London, England. Set in Venice, Italy, The Haunted...
Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley’s very first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1921. The book is partly autobiographic. Its central character is inspired from the author himself, while its events sum, to a certain extent, his own...
Along with the world famous Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote had given life to many other novels and short novels. A Tree of Night and other stories is Capote’s most famous collection of short stories published in 1949. The collection is...
We the Animals is author Justin Torres' debut novel. Released in 2011, the novel tells the story of three brothers of mixed race as they live their rough lives rural upstate New York throughout the 1980s. Although it primarily focuses on one of...
Mary Shelley is no doubt best known for her novel called Frankenstein. However, she wrote countless novels and long-form stories. Among those short stories is "Mathilda," which tells the provocative story of a father's incestuous love for her...
The Four Feathers is the sixth novel of English author A.E.W. Mason and arguably his most successful composition. This masterpiece was published in 1902 by Macmillan as a historical fiction, thriller, and adventure book. The fact that its author...
New Grub Street is a realistic novel written by English novelist George Gissing, and published in three volumes by Smith, Elder & Co in 1891. The book is a semi-autobiographic work inspired by the authors’ own experiences in London’s literary...
In 2008, on the 23rd of May, at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, the film Synecdoche, New York was released for the first time. Directed by Charlie Kaufman, which was his debut film, the film Synecdoche, New York tells an unusual story about a...
The Color of Magic, the first of Sir Terry Pratchett's extensive comedic fantasy series Discworld, marked a humble beginning for what would become a massively successful endeavor. Set in the fictional realm of the Discworld, a flat circle carried...
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is the last short story Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote before his death in 1881. Published in 1877 in A Writers' Diary, this story departs from the author's traditionally harsh realism, instead presenting...
Frank Bidart’s collection of poems from 1965 to 2016, published in 2017 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The collection was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2017. Bidart also won...
If there is a required job history for a poet, it is quite likely that Texan-born Jonah Winter can meet it, having worked as a llama rancher (among other stints) before embarking on his career as a writer of poetry. Winter was initially drawn to...
Down Second Avenue is a semi-autobiographical memoir by novelist, teacher, and writer Ezekiel Es’kia Mphahlele. It was released in South Africa by Peter Smith Publishers in 1959. Es’kia was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1969 and is highly...
The Ecstasy of Influence is Jonathan Lethem's fifth book since his first breakthrough The Fortress of Solitude in the year 2003 which ranked as a bestseller. The book was later followed by several works such as Men and Cartoon an imaginary...
Tom McCarthy's Spotlight (released in 2015) tells the story of eponymous "Spotlight" team from the Boston Globe, who were tasked with investigating the plague of child abuse cases in the Boston area - and more broadly, across the world -...
Etheridge Knight is an African-American poet born in Mississippi. His serious involvement with poetry came after his imprisonment which was a result of a drug addiction which was a relief from pain because of an injury he received while serving in...
It is safe to say that Looking for Alibrandi isn't one of the most well-known films in the world (since on a budget of only $4.5 million, the film made back $8.3 million). However, it is certainly a very good film. In his review for...
The Shape of Our Faces No Longer Matters is a collection of poems written by war veteran Tony Mena and is part of the Military-Service Literature Series. While on tour in Iraq, Mena was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for numerous acts of...
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...
