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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...

Lady Audley's Secret was first published in serial form, meaning it appeared in short installments at regular intervals rather than all at once. This method of publishing, which was common in the Victorian period, suited works that were dramatic...

Crossed, the second book of Ally Condie's Matched trilogy, is a young adult, dystopian, romance novel featuring Cassia Reyes and Ky Markham as protagonists. The book details Cassia and Ky's fight to reunite after forced estrangement at the hands...

Kindred is science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s most famous work. A genre-bending novel, it includes explorations time travel, antebellum slavery, and feminism, told in gripping and immediate prose. It has been referred to as a work of...

Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's second published novel, after her award-winning To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Although there are some striking differences between Lee's two novels in terms of style and content, the continuity...

Published in 1995, Krik? Krak! is a collection of 9 short stories written by Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. Though they have differing topics and central characters, the stories are linked together because of one central concept: the...

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...

Let the Circle be Unbroken is one of Mildred Taylor’s most famous books for young readers, and a cherished work of African American fiction. It is a sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, which was published in 1976.

Let the Circle was published...

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...