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All This Could Be Different is the debut novel that brought Sarah Thankam Mathews into the world's limelight of literature. Sarah Thankam Mathews was brought up in India and Oman before migrating to the United States of America at age 17. In 2020,...

Julia May Jonas' Vladimir was published in February 2022 by Simon & Schuster. Jonas' novel tells the story of a female English professor whose husband is currently under investigation for his alleged affairs with former students, some of whom...

If I Survive You, Miami-based author Jonathan Escoffery's short story collection, was published in 2022. The stories, which are interconnected and tell the story of the same family, examine the impact of racism, bad luck, and financial disaster on...

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, author Kim Fu's short story collection published in 2022, tells twelve strange and unique stories about monsters in the 21st century. For example, one story follows a young girl who grows wings on her...

Signal Fires, American author Dani Shapiro’s novel about one fateful night in 1985, was first published in October 2022. On that aforementioned fateful night, three teenagers begin to drink heavily. After they are finished drinking, one of the...

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland is an Irish author and journalist Fintan O'Toole's personal history of Ireland from 1958 to the modern day. O'Toole was born in Ireland in 1958 and witnessed the country change...

For Linda Villarosa, who is a regular contributor to the 1619 Project, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation (published in 2022) is personal. As an author and activist, Villarosa is deeply...

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published strangers to Ourselves in September 2022. Aviv's nonfiction book explores the relationship between culture, society, and how mental illness and how society treats the mentally ill. She does this by telling the...

Gitanjali (or "Song Offerings" in English) is Bengali author and poet Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection, first published in Bengali in 1910 and in English in 1912. There are 156 or 157 poems in Gitanjali (scholars have not yet decided how...

Rabindranath Tagore's Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore was initially published in October 2006. In this collection, there are poems from Tagore's early career (1882-1913), his middle career (1914-1936), and his late career (1937-1941)....

Mia P. Manansala's debut novel Arsenic and Adobo was published in May 2021 and quickly gained critical acclaim. The story follows Lila Macapagal, a young woman who returns home to help save her aunt's failing Filipino restaurant after a painful...

Ed Yong has devoted his career to learning more and writing about the natural world—including humans and the animals that live inside of it. Yong's second book, called An Immense World (which was published in 2022), is about animal senses....

Carol Ann Duffy is one of Scotland's most acclaimed and widely read poets. She was also named poet laureate of the United Kingdom in 2009. Throughout her long and illustrious career, Duffy wrote countless poems and poetry collections. None,...

Fire & Blood is a fantasy book by author George R. R. Martin, first published in 2018. Written as a historical text within the world of Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice universe, the book chronicles the history of House Targaryen, the ruling...

Trust is a novel that was written by Hernan Diaz in 2022 and published by Riverhead Books. This book is about money, wealth, status, the role of women in this process, love and madness. That’s why The Washington Post and The New York Times called...

Namwali Serpell's The Furrows, which was published in September 2022, tells the story of Cassandra Williams and her brother, Wayne. One day, the two have an accident while together and Wayne disappears and presumably dies. His body, however, is...

To a Shade is a 1916 poem first published in W.B. Yeats's collection Responsibilities and Other Poems. In this twenty-six-line work, Yeats voices anger and resentment towards Dublin's middle classes on behalf of two historical figures: the late...

In many ways, Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19, which was initially published in March of 2022, is a difficult novel to describe and fully explain. It is a novel about self-discovery and a novel about dreams. It also tells the story of a young...

Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë's only novel, and it is considered the fullest expression of her highly individual poetic vision. It contains many Romantic influences: Heathcliff is a very Byronic character, though he lacks the self pity that...

12 Angry Men has had a long history of production and revision, from short teleplay to major Broadway productions. Reginald Rose first found inspiration for 12 Angry Men when he served on a jury in a manslaughter case, over which the jurors fought...

The Grand Illusion (released as La Grande Illusion) is director Jean Renoir's French-language war film which was initially released in 1937. Renoir's film follows a group of French soldiers, led by Captain de Boeldieu and Lieutenant Maréchal, who...

"When You Are Old" is a poem by the Irish writer W.B. Yeats, originally published in the 1893 collection The Rose. The poem features a speaker who addresses an unnamed listener in the second person. This speaker imagines the listener's future, and...

Pigeon English (2011) is author Stephen Kelman's debut novel. The text follows the story of Harrison "Harri" Opoku, an eleven-year-old Ghanaian immigrant who tries to solve the murder of a London boy. Kelman was inspired to write Pigeon English ...

Heroes and Saints is a play written by playwright Cherrie Moraga. It was first performed in 1992. Although set in the fictional town of McLaughlin, Moraga draws from the real-life case of McFarland, California where high exposure to pesticides...