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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1999) constitutes author Bill Bryson's first of many travel books. It details Bryson's nearly fourteen-thousand mile car journey, which started in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa and took Bryson...

When the postal service discovered child pornography from the Netherlands in a package addressed to Arnold Friedman, of Great Neck, New York, investigators were dispatched to his home where they discovered a large collection of magazines similar...

The book "Women and Alcohol in Highland Maya Town" is written by Christine Eber and published in 1995. It is a feminist analysis of gender culture, tradition, religious change, and drinking habits in highland Chiapas. The writer researched the...

Nappily Ever After is a 2018 Netflix original based on the novel of the same name which was written by Trisha R. Thomas. It is a romantic-comedy film, written by Adam Brooks and Cee Marcellus and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour.

The film follows the...

Sarah Baartman was a Khoekhoe woman, descending from the indigenous nomadic people of southwestern Africa. She was known as the Hottentot Venus, and in the early part of the nineteenth century was put on display throughout Europe, much like other...

Orphan of Asia, completed in 1945, is an autobiographical novel by Chuo-liu Wu, dramatizing the internal, external, and personal struggles of the protagonist Hu Taiming. This central character is “born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan” and grows up...

Patience Agbabi is a black British female poet born in London in 1965. Some of her poems include The Doll's House, Telling Tales, and What Do Women Like Bes'? to name three out of the many published.

The Doll’s House is a very critically acclaimed...

Published in 1973, Stephen King's Carrie is an epistolary horror novel that takes the form of collected newspaper clippings, letters and diary entries to tell the tale of how bullied misfit Carrie White uses her telekinetic powers to avenge her...

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (released in 2002) is a collaboration between Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman with the goal of explaining and perhaps more importantly, debunking the growing movement...

The Diary of Anais Nin is the publication of the real manuscript diary of Anais Nin, hence the title. Nin started the diary at the age of 11 in 1914 while on a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. She started it initially...

The Prestige is one of Christopher Nolan’s famed cinematography works, staring notable actors including Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, as well as renowned musician David Bowie. The thriller was released on October 17, 2006 and distributed by...

The Mist is a novella penned by the godfather of horror writing, Stephen King. It tells the story of a mist that suddenly envelops the small town of Bridgton in Maine; the mist is not a natural phenomenon but an evil one, and it hides monsters...

The Drover's Wife (released in 2016) is a very loose reimagining of the classic short story of the same name by Henry Lawson. The play tells the story of a woman named Molly Johnson, who is very pregnant and living on a remote homestead in the...

The APUSH (AP U.S. History) textbook, currently in its Sixteenth Edition edited by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, has been a foundational resource for students studying American history. Since its inception in 1958 under the editorship of...

Deborah Miranda's 2012 book Bad Indians is a unique one, particularly because its unique structure and because it is a mixed-genre book. To that end, the book is both a history of the authors tribe of California Indians and a memoir of the authors...

Despite his aristocratic standing, or perhaps even because of it, Lord Rochester, a courtier in the court of King Charles II of England, was known to be somewhat of a hell-raiser. A favorite poet of the monarch, he rebelled against the Puritan era...

Fingersmith could aptly be described in the following sentence: Fingersmith is a historical crime/erotic novel set during the Victorian era in Britain. The book tells the story of Sue Trinder and Maud (in the first section, Sue controls the...

Kitty Hart Moxon was only fifteen years old when she was imprisoned in German death camp Auschwitz-Berkenau; seventy years later, she returns to the camp, taking with her two teenage girls the same age as she was when she first passed through the...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is a book of the collected speeches of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg (there are eleven of her speeches included in the book). All of her speeches involve the grave threat climate change poses to the...

Released on September 10th, 2019 (6 days prior to this writing), She Said by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey is already a best seller on Amazon -- and likely at The New York Times when they release their bestseller lists.

At its core, She...

Richard Wright wrote only a handful of published poems during his life. However, those he did publish were incredibly important to race relations in the United States (which is the consistent theme throughout his work). Born in 1908 in Mississippi...

At the Full and Change of the Moon is a book written by the Canadian poet Dionne Brand. The paperback spans over 320 pages of lyrical plot-driven action. It was first published in 1999 by Granta Books, Grove Press, and Knopf Canada, before being...

Mohja Kahf is a “Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor", born in 1967. She has a growing collection of published work that ranges from poetry, articles in journals and anthologies, fiction, prose, and scholarship. Some of her notable work...

Although a work of fiction, The Well of Loneliness was almost like a memoir for its author, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, who was herself a lesbian who spent a large part of her dating years chasing women who were married at the time. Like the book's...