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Before co-writing the screenplay for The Last Samurai, co-producer and director Edward Zwick and writer Marshall Herskowitz were best known for writing, producing and directing the groundbreaking television drama series thirtysomething. The movie...

There are some films that are almost more famous for one line spoken within them; Rob Reiner's 1992 legal drama, A Few Good Men, is one of those films, Starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, it was adapted for the big screen by Aaron...

Master Class is a play by critically acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally. It premiered in 1995 at the John Golden Theater in New York City. The play, set in the 1970s, tells a fictional version of opera masterclasses by the real-life opera...

Love! Valour! Compassion! is a play written by Terrence McNally, that was performed in Broadway in 1995 after transferring from a traditional theatre in 1994. The play premiered on 11 October 1994 at the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it ran for a...

Writing and drawing are identical gestures made with the hand.

Poet and author Renee Gladman begins her collection of poems, Calamities, by making this statement, and throughout her literary career, Gladman has shown that she likes to fuse...

First-time director Sarah Daggar-Nickson's 2018 film A Vigilante is the story of Sadie, an abused wife-turned-vigilante who manages to escape from her violent husband and begins to study martial arts, survival skills and boxing so that she can...

Written by American author Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (published in 2007) tells the story of a rather gifted young man named Kvothe, who aims to become the most notorious wizard in the entire world. Rothfuss' novel follows Kvothe from...

Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Paul Limbert Allman was a prodigious writer, writing nearly a half dozen books and countless essays and plays. Among his most famous essays is "The Frequency," which was published by the prestigious Harper's...

"The Good Daughter" is an autobiographical essay by American author Caroline Hwang. The essay gives the details of Hwang's internal struggle of being both a Korean and an American, and having parents that follow a strict Korean culture in a...

When you are the author of one of the most successful children's fiction series of all time, deciding how to follow up on your success can be quite a dilemma. Fortunately, J.K. Rowling decided to commit to a number of "firsts" when she tackled the...

River Thieves is a novel by Canadian author and poet Michael Crummey, originally published in 2001. The novel follows the story of the Peyton family, who have newly arrived in the New World, in the early 1800's. They set up shop in Newfoundland,...

Decades after the original Blade Runner, director Denis Villeneuve brought back the popular franchise with the release of Blade Runner 2049, in 2017. This film is set thirty years after the original and serves as a sequel to the landmark film....

The Sand Child was written by Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun and was published in 1985 in France. The novel discusses the impact of colonialism on Morroco, and also themes of gender, identity, and tradition. This story is continued in Jelloun’s...

A children's book written by New York Times bestseller Vashti Harrison, Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History tells the stories of 40 black women throughout history and how they contributed to history. These stories, obviously, are told in a...

A Vindication of the Rights of Men is a political pamphlet written by Mary Wollstonecraft. It was published in 1790 and was written in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. In this text, Wollstonecraft criticizes...

Apeirogon is a novel published in 2020 by Irish-American author Colum McCann and is based on a real-life story. The book focuses on the unexpected friendship of two fathers, Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan, who connect over the...

Weather was published in 2020 by American writer Jenny Offill and is her third published book. The novel follows librarian Lizzie Benson as she copes with a chaotic and turbulent American life. From no longer loving her husband to having to deal...

Over the course of his long and illustrious career, British director Ken Loach has directed more classics than some directors have ever had a chance to make in their entire careers. Among those classics is Land and Freedom (1995), which tells the...

When asked to describe The Nice Guys (2016), Ryan Gosling said that it is a "Shane Black film." Gosling stars as Holland March, a struggling, dim-witted private detective with a penchant for screwing up cases and Russell Crowe, a tough enforcer....

Just as Bonnie and Clyde are synonymous with any young male - female criminal duo, so have Thelma and Louise become the poster girls for female best friend ride-or-dies. The movie Thelma and Louise was released in 1991 and quickly became a...

Red Dust Road is an autobiographical novel by Scottish author Jackie Kay which tells the story of her twenty-year search for her birth parents, and her quest to be acknowledged by them both as their biological child. The book opens in the Nicon...

Based on David Mitchell's award-winning novel with the same name, Cloud Atlas is a sci-fi film distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures and is directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. The film was released at the Toronto International Film...

Her Body and Other Parties is the debut collection of some of the American author Carmen Maria Machado's best short stories. Published in 2017, it dives into the daily realities and experiences of the lives of modern women without any boundaries...

"Miss Cynthie" is a short story originally published in Story Magazine in 1933. It's publication was controversial to some, because it was written by an African American author, Rudolph Fisher. At this time, it was often seen as unacceptable for...