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"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...

The Poetry of Sarojini Naidu is a collection of poems authored by Indian author and the first woman to be President of the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu. The collection was curated by L. N. Mishra and published by B. R. Publishing...

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...

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...

The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century by Chicano author Maria Cristina Mena. The publication was undertaken by the US Hispanic Literary Heritage as an initiative to recover...

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...

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...

The Rise of Skywalker marks the end of an era which began with 1977's A New Hope and ended after nine films. To that end, The Rise of Skywalker is the last film in the legendary Skywalker Saga - but also the beginning of another story. Once again,...

Conspiracy Theories, says political scientist and author Joseph E. Uscinski, will inevitably appear in "complex human societies," as he calls them. But conspiracy theories have never been as ubiquitous as they are now, partially fueled by people...

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...

Deceit and Other Possibilities is the debut collection of stories from award-winning author Vanessa Hua. It was published in 2016 by Willow Books. The collection is filled with powerful voices. From immigrants leaving their ancestral homelands to...

Eureka Street is a novel written by Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, and was published in 1996 by Secker & Warburg. The book was later republished in 1997 in the US, under Arcadia publishing house.The story revolves around the lives of two...

Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion is a book by Pulitzer-nominated author Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. It was first published in 2000 by University of California Press. Sociologists attempt to breakdown religion and find a...

Although Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power isn't all that well-known, it is certainly interesting. Broadly, it examines famous conspiracy theories (Pizzagate and the Birther myth, for example, are...

Your Name is a Japanese anime feature film that was released in 2016. Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, the romantic drama is about two high schoolers who out of the blue swap their bodies. The titular roles are voiced by Ryunosuke Kamiki...