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Written by multi-talented author Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (originally published in 2010) combines prose, graphic art (images), elements of plays, and philosophy to tell the story of the American Civil Rights Movement. The book begins in 1968,...

In what is yet another adaption of William Shakespeare's classic play Hamlet, director Gregory Doran's 2009 film Hamlet is a filmed modern-dress adaption of the famed play. Hamlet tells the story of the eponymous Prince Hamlet (played in the film...

Le Grand Meaulnes (translated to The Lost Estate in English) is French author's Alain-Fournier's one and only novel published 1913, just a year before his death on the battlefields of World War I. It tells the semi-biographical tale of a young man...

James Baxter is a New Zealand-born poet and playwright responsible for some of the countries best - and most famous - poems and plays. Among his many famous works is the poem "The Bad Young Man," which tells the simple yet profound story of a...

Isabella Whitney is thought of as the first professional female poet and writer in England, where she lived during the late 1550s. She is attributed as being the first Englishwoman to have written and published her own unreligious poetry. Whitney...

Written by Elizabeth Ehrlich, Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir (originally published in 1998), tells the story of Elizabeth's life and her Jewish religious upbringing. Initially, she was put off by her religion and didn't really appreciate her past and...

Written by Latino LGBTQ+ writer Rigoberto Gonzalez, Red-Inked Retablos (originally released in 2013) is his memoir. Through essays and stories, Gonzalez tells the story of his life - particularly his life in writing and his life in the Chicano...

What would happen to the world if a new bacterial disease appeared in the world that was immune to antibiotics and more deadly than the 1918 Spanish Flu? Or Ebola spread to much of the world? What would the world do? How could we prepare? How...

Written by American author Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer (released in 2000) tells the story of a small town in Appalachia (the United States) and the various people who inhabit it. Particularly, it tells three separate - but connected -...

Le Pur et l'impur was written in 1932 by French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. It is not a traditional novel in its structure; it consists of different conversations about sex, sexual attraction and gender, and is far less fictional than its...

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...