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Wim Wenders is a German director born on August 14, 1945 in the Rhine Province. Despite his clear love for art and literature as a child, after graduating from high school, he studied medicine at university. However, he dropped out midway to...

The Great Transformation is a nonfictional book by Karl Polanyi about the social and economic history. It was first published in the United States in 1944 by Farrar & Rinehart, and it is divided into three parts. It was later published in...

The Division of Labor in Society, published in 1893, is the English translation of Sociologist Émile Durkheim's doctoral thesis, De la Division du Travail Social.

In The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim views society through the lens of the...

Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist born on April 15, 1858 in Lorraine, France. As a child, he grew up in a traditional Jewish household, but did not lead a spiritual lifestyle. He grew interested in how mental processes, rather than divine...

Erving Goffman was a sociologist and novelist born on June 11, 1922 in Alberta, Canada. As a child, he never had an interest in science, but rather wanted to pursue a career in the arts. After graduating from St. John’s Technical High School, he...

Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised in a family that strongly valued science considering his father was an engineer and instilled in him a passion for the subject. After graduating from...

Andy Tennant is an American film director born on June 15, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973, he attended the University of Southern California to study theater. His first venture into show...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the final third of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns that transformed Clint Eastwood from another TV star failing to make the leap to the big screen into pop culture icon. The first two films in this trilogy (a...

Cool Hand Luke is an American film directed by television journeyman Stuart Rosenberg. Released in November 1967, it was the first major studio production that Rosenberg ever directed. The film gestated during development with the guiding hand of...

The Annals was written by the ancient Roman orator and historian Tacitus between the years 118 and 123. Divided into 18 books (some divisions place it at 16 volumes), The Annals is a history of Rome in the first century stretching from the demise...

One-Bedroom Solo is a compilation of poetry and other works by Latina writer Sheila Maldonado. It was published in 2011 by Fly by Night Press, and is her debut poetry collection.

The poems Maldonado wrote in One-Bedroom Solo are deeply personal,...

Jason Koo is a New Yorker by birth and a Clevelander by nurture whose three collections of poetry published between 2009 and 2018 has received significant critical acclaim as well as a growing audience. Koo’s academic credentials are beyond...

Anne Carson is a renowned Canadian poet and scholar. After dropping out of the University of Toronto twice, she eventually earned her BA, MA, and PhD in Classics. She has taught at many popular universities within the US and Canada, such as the...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is a novel by Maggie O'Farrell that was first published in her native Britain in 2006. It is a courageous novel that deals with the complex and sometimes unspoken subject of madness, specifically in women, and the...

The seventh novel of American novelist Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind was published in April 2005. The audiobook edition won the Audio Publishers Association's 2006 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction.

A Slight Trick of the Mind centers...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape focuses on a small town in Iowa called Endora, and tells the tale of a dyfunctional family living in this closed off community where small meaningless parts of everyday life hold literary significance. Published in...

Born in 1895 in Ukraine, Zoshchenko was a Soviet writer. He was a member of the literary group The Serapion Brothers, whose members were highly influenced by the works of science fiction writer and political satirist, Yevgeni Zamyatin. Humor...

Pedro Almodovar's transcendent Talk to Her stars Javier Cámara as Benigno Martín, Darío Grandinetti as Marco Zuluaga, Leonor Watling as Alicia Roncero, and Rosario Flores as Lydia González. It tells the story of male nurse Benigno and...

Set against the dramatic historical backdrop of the Vietnam War, The Wednesday Wars is a young adult novel written by Gary D. Schmidt published in 2007. It won a Newbery Honor medal in 2008 and was also nominated for the 2010 Rebecca Caudill Young...

Jean Blewett was a writer and journalism who advocated for the rights of woman in the 19th and 20th century. She was born to a Scottish family near Lake Erie in Ontario, Canada in 1862 (this is often erroneously suggested to be 1872). Unlike many...

Christopher Soto, also known as Loma, is a contemporary US poet, activist and writer who was born in Los Angeles, California and now resides in Brooklyn, New York. They describe themselves as a 'queer latin@ punk poet', and prefer the pronouns...

In conversations concerning psychoanalysis and psychology, the first name that comes to mind is most likely Sigmund Freud. Freud was an Austrian neurologist as well as the founder of psychoanalysis. He set up his clinical practice in Vienna and...

David Foster Wallace is an American novelist born on February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York. He was raised in a family of academics as both his parents were teachers. After graduating high school, he attended Amherst College to study English and...

Published on April 24th, 2012, Farther Away is an eclectic collection of essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen, a winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize among many other prestigious awards.

A New York Times reviewer wrote...