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This Fight Is Our Fight is a 2017 book by American Democratic politician Elizabeth Warren which delves into the ongoing assault against the American middle class. The book itself serves not only as a rebuttal against Trump’s election but also as a...

Book Seven of the Tales of the City series is important because it reintroduced Armistead Maupin's iconic series to an entirely new generation of readers. Published eighteen years after Book Six, it San Francisco of the early twenty first century...

Armistead Maupin wrote the nine novels within the Tales of the City series over a thirty-six years. The first four books were serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle before they were published, but the remaining five were published as novels...

Movies about the Gulf War are usually centered around long drawn out gunfire battles, losses taken by American troops, and nail-biting strategic battles in an effort to quell a dangerous enemy. Three Kings, directed by David O. Russell, presents a...

If the Academy Awards ever added a category for Most Tears Shed In A Movie, Love Story would definitely be a contender, if not the winner outright. Considered to be one of the most romantic movies of all time, the film is at its heart a tragedy...

The Black Death: A Personal History is a book written by author and scholar John Hatcher. It was first published June 2008 by Da Capo Press in the United States, as well as being published as The Black Death: An Intimate History by Orion in the UK...

There is a certain air of mystery around the authorship of this epic poem; scholars are torn between attributing its writing to Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Mallory. It is one of many versions of the popular fifteenth century loathly lady story, in...

Deepa Mehta's Earth (released in September 1999), is set in 1947 during the partition of India. It is a romance film and tells the story of a young girl with Polio named Lenny. Lenny is from a wealthy Parsi family who wants to remain neutral in...

The Slave Ship: A Human History is a book written by American author, scholar, professor and historian Marcus Rediker. It was first published in October 2007 by Penguin Books in the United States, and December 2007 by Viking books in the United...

I Capture the Castle is author Dodie Smith's first novel. Published shortly after World War II in 1948 (the book was written while Smith and her husband were in California during the war), I Capture the Castle follows a young 17-year-old girl...

Scottish novelist Ali Smith received a multitude of plaudits for her 2014 novel How to Be Both, with critical acclaim and a slew of awards and nominations, including the prestigious Man Booker Prize, for which she was nominated in 2014, and the...

Three Women is a nonfictional biographical text written by the American writer and journalist Lisa Taddeo. It was published the 9th of July 2019 by Avid Reader Press and Simon Schuster. The story spans over 320 pages, featuring three different...

Sanditon is unique among Jane Austen's novels in that it was never actually finished; it is therefore up to the reader to decide what might ultimately happen to the characters they have come to know within it, and to try to create the novel's...

The Great Escape was based upon a book written by Australian World War II veteran Paul Brickhill; his first-person account told of his experiences as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp in Poland where the Germans kept British and...

First published in June 1977 by Del Rey Books, Anne McCaffrey's Get Off the Unicorn was met with rapturous critical acclaim. McCaffrey's biographer summed up the importance of the book nicely, writing that "the power and appeal of [her] reputation...

One of the most notable things about Sean Baker's 2017 movie is that it was the first film for many of its stars, including Brooklyn Prince, whose prior screen experience had been on a Chuck-E-Cheese commercial, and Bria Vinaite, who was spotted...

Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (originally published in Sweden in 2013 ad in the United States as a translated version in 2015) tells the story of a young girl named Elsa. She lives in Sweden and knows she is...

City of God is a collection of short stories and poems by Gil Cuadros, an author who battles the disease AIDS himself and who uses his writing to de-sensationalize the homosexual identity and people struggling with AIDS.

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Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs first premiered on December 10th, 1982 in a Pre-Broadway showcase. It is the first in Simon's so-called Eugene Trilogy (which consists of this play, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound). Brighton Beach Memoirs is...

Ursula Le Guin's science fiction novella, The Word for World is Forest, has the unusual distinction of having been published for the first time twice; the first time it appeared was in 1972, in an anthology of similar writings entitled Again,...

There are two types of Japanese poetry. The first, composed by classical poets, is actually written in the Chinese language. The second, Waka, is a traditional poetry written in the Japanese language; it is the latter that Ueda Akinari is most...

Although he was perhaps best-known as the best friend of famed Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkein, Christopher Wiseman was a very fine author and poet in his own right. Born in England just prior to the outbreak of WWII, Wiseman moved around...

Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) is one of the many classic films released during the 1970s and 1980s depicting the Vietnam War (other films of that era include Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter). The film was a major critical and financial success....

Mary Harron's 2000 film American Psycho is a sharp, satirical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, delving into the dark recesses of 1980s Wall Street culture. The film follows Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker whose obsession...