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Published in 2014 by Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like A Crab is a fictional book with an interesting take on life. The main character of the novel is Jonathan Lewis-Adey, who has had a relatively hard childhood. When he was younger, his...

Yellow Woman is a 1993 book by Leslie Marmon Silko inspired by traditional Native American tales. It was published by the Rutgers University Press and praised for its psychological exploration of a single woman.

Yellow Woman tells the story of...

Released in 1986 and directed by David Cronenberg, The Fly raked in $60.6 million dollars at the box office. Bearing the same name as a 1958 film, this movie is in the genre of science-fiction horror. The plot revolving around a mad scientist that...

Fadwa Tuqan was a Palestinian poet best known for her outspoken role in the Israel-Palestine conflict. She was born to a wealthy and renowned family in Nablus, Palestine, in 1917. She suffered from poor health as a young girl, and was forced to...

Muzaffar Al-Nawab is a celebrated Iraqi poet. He was born in 1934 to a wealthy family in Baghdad. After studying literature and becoming a teacher, he began to associate with the Communist movement in Iraq. For this he was imprisoned and tortured...

Kissing the Witch is a fiction collection written by Irish author Emma Donoghue, who was born in Dublin. Her works, including the well-received novel Room, have received many awards and were renowned bestsellers. Kissing the Witch is a fantasy...

The Boy in the Suitcase is the first of the Nina Borg series written by Danish authors Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis. The book introduces the titular character of the series, Nina Borg, and chronicles her experience with a mysterious baby boy...

Born in 1913, Karl Shapiro was an American writer who had a great influence on literature of the time. In 1945, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for V-Letter and Other Poems. His writing is often noted for his description of the importance of...

Published in 1997 by Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange is an interesting fictional novel that takes into consideration a wide variety of ideas and races. The genre unclear and debatable, the book for sure has a sense of 'magic realism' in it...

Suddenly, Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams structured in four scenes. The short drama tends to run around an hour in production and is thematically representative of the bulk of work which makes up this section of Williams’...

John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Four first names that need no last names (though, admittedly, someone named Ringo probably never needs a last name). Back in the 1960’s they were very commonly referred to as “four lads from Liverpool” and they made...

Roger McGough was born in Lanarkshire, England, in 1937, to an Irish Catholic family. After completing Grammar School he attended the University of Hull where he studied both Geography and French. During this time, he was employed as a librarian...

Published in 1994, Prozac Nation is an autobiography written by Elizabeth Wurtzel. The book revolves around the author, and how she had to get through all of the major road bumps of life while struggling with depression. Turned into a film in...

Clarice Lispector is a Brazilian author born on December 10, 1920 in Chechelnyk, Ukrainian People’s Republic. As a child, her home was war-torn and completely unsafe for her and her family. Thus, she moved to Rio de Janeiro by the time she was a...

A Mad World, My Masters is a city comedy play written by Thomas Middleton. It was published in the early 1600s. Thomas Middleton was a British playwright and poet who was very famous at his time and his works were viewed by many people. He came...

Published in 1987, The Playmaker is a novel by the Australian writer Thomas Keneally. The book is based in 18th century Australia, in a British Penal colony. The convicts, bored and alone on the island, all work together to make a play to...

George Farquhar is an Irish writer born in Derry, Ireland in 1677. At a young age, Farquhar demonstrated a natural capacity for writing. At 7 years, he was writing short stories and always thinking up ideas for a new play. After graduating grade...

Jo Shapcott was born in London, England in 1954. She was educated at various institutions, including Trinity College in Dublin, Oxford, and Harvard. She won a National Poetry in 1985, before she had even released a poetry book. Her first book, ...

Coming Up for Air is a fictional classic novel written by George Orwell. It was first published in 1939. George Orwell was an English novelist and was very famous for his novels Animal Farm, which alluded to communism and its problems, and 1984, a...

Originally a Mexican film, The Young and the Damned is the English film translation for Los Olvidados. Released in 1950, the film was directed by Luis Buñuel, running just 80 minutes. Distributed by Koch-Lorber Films, the movie was heavily...

Cronos is Guillermo del Toro's first feature film. Released in 1993, It set him off as one the freshest directors to watch for as critically the film was praised, though it did not receive a wide American distribution (only 28 theaters). It was...

My Garden is a non-fiction book and somewhat a memoir written by author Jamaica Kincaid. It was published in 1999. Kincaid is an Antiguan-American writer and gardener. She has written numerous books, and the most famous were My Garden and A Small...

Nikki Giovanni is considered a top African-American poet of the twentieth century. Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee during 1943 and was raised in a family of strong African-American heritage. She gained popularity during the 1960s and...

If for no other reason, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land would hold a place in the history of literature as the first science fiction novel to ever make it onto the New York Times Bestseller List. Published at just the right time in...