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Boyz n the Hood is Writer/Director John Singleton's debut effort. It was released in 1991 and stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles, Angela Bassett as Reva Styles, Laurence Fishburne as Jason Styles Jr., and Ice Cube as Darrin Baker. The movie...

In the early 1970s, an ethnic sub-genre of movies emerged known as "Blaxploitation". The films featured largely stereotypical black characters, and for this reason received considerable backlash, but despite this, Blaxploitation movies were the...

Maurice is a novel about homosexuality written by E. M. Forster. It was first published after several years of revision and work in 1971, a year after the death of its author. The book was initially written between the years 1913 and 1914, revised...

History of the Peloponnesian War is an historical recollection of the war between the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League, called the Peloponnesian War. It is also commonly known as a conflict between Athens and Sparta and their allies. The...

Written by author Carrie Ryan, Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer (published in 2012) tells the story of three kids named Dak, Sera, and Riq and how they try to stop the Vikings from coming into Paris. When Dak gets captured he is forced to work...

Nashville is a musical comedy movie, starring the city of Nashville. The movie is both directed and produced by Robert Altman, and the screenplay is by Joan Tewkesbury. The movie was released in 1975 and is known for the heavy influence the music...

Saint Maybe is a novel written by the American author Anne Tyler. It was published in 1991 by Knopf, published in print with 337 pages. The book has elements of the genre literary realism, since that is the genre in which Tyler usually writes.

The...

In 1934 James M. Cain published his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice. The tale of illicit lovers fueled by sexual obsession and greed to murder the woman’s husband became a best seller and inspired three different movie versions before...

Akira is an animated Japanese movie that resides in the cyberpunk sub-genre because of its futuristic setting that juxtaposes an ever-advancing technological world with a human world that is fast degenerating and where social order is disappearing...

Shadowboxing is a collection of short stories that are connected through the main character; Michael. It is written by Tony Birch, who is an Australian poet, short story writer and novelist. Shadowboxing is Tony’s first book, and it was published...

Naked Masks is a collection of five plays by Luigi Pirandello, who is a highly celebrated dramatist. Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 and was educated in Rome. In 1889, he published his first work, a collection of poems called Mal Giocondo....

If R.K. Narayan was to go by his given name, then the cover would be an appealing hodge-podge of letters; born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami in 1906, Narayan quickly became one of India's most internationally-revered writers and was at...

The Stepford Wives is an internationally famed book written by renowned author, Ira Levin, who is also known for his bestselling book, Rosemary's Baby. The book was published by Random House in September 1972.

The book centers around the...

Bridge to Terabithia is a book turned movie adaptation of the book by Katherine Paterson under the same name. It is directed by Gábor Csupó and was written by David L. Paterson and Jeff Stockwell. David L. Paterson is both the producer and...

Rock Springs is author Richard Ford's 1987 collection of short stories dealing with the effect of dysfunctional families (moms and dads) on the young male narrators. It has ten stories: "Rock Springs," "Great Falls," "Sweet Hearts," "Children,"...

Mourid Barghouti, the author of I Saw Ramallah, was born and raised in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. He is a Palestinian writer and poet. I Saw Ramallah is a book about himself and his travel in life. It was first published in the year 2000 in...

The Pickup tells the story of love between two different people and is about immigration and segregation in South Africa. The book was published in 2001 under Bloomsbury Press in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US. It is written by...

The Cave, which is originally called A caverna in its Portuguese and first edition is a fictional story about the consequences of the new age and economy written by the famous Portuguese writer José Saramago. Saramago discusses capitalism though...

The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong was published in 2017. It is written by Suchen Christine Lim who is a Singaporean writer. This is a book which talks about the prejudice, tension and taboos in Singapore. Lim has won the Singapore Literature...

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, literary critic and novelist. He is the only person that has won the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry, and he was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was close to winning every major award...

The Order of Things is a book of philosophy published in 1966 by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Foucault explains in his book that, throughout human history, there have been three constants in a human's field of study: linguistics,...

Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States (there have been three editions: the first published in 1986, a second edition published in 1994, and a third published in 2015) introduces readers to the theory of racial...

Published in 1994, Stones from the River is a novel that follows the story of main character Trudi Montag, who has to live life as a dwarf. Daughter to a mentally-challenged mother, Trudi is despised because of her appearance by her mother until...

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story is written by Luis Alberto Urrea in 2004. Urrea was born in Tijuana, but lives in Chicago now. The story follows 26 Mexicans who wanted to cross the border to the United States. They ended up in a place called the...