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“Pied Beauty” was written by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1877, but—like so much of his work—wasn’t published until 1918, 30 years after his death, as a part of the collection Poems, which was edited by his close friend Robert...

John Clare was born in 1793, in the English village of Helpstone to Parker and Ann Stimson Clare. His father was a field laborer, and both of his parents were essentially illiterate. Clare received some schooling and learned basic reading and...

The Boys from Biloxi is set to be released in October of 2022 and will be published by author John Grisham's longtime publisher, Doubleday.

The second of five children, John Grisham was born in February 2015 to Ronda and John Ray Grisham, a...

“Love Lives Beyond the Tomb” is a poem about love by the English Romantic poet John Clare, written while he was an unwilling resident of Northampton Insane Asylum. Like all of Clare’s later work, it was never published during his lifetime, but...

Children of Blood and Bone is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Nigerian-American novelist Tomi Adeyemi. Children of Blood and Bone is the first book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. It is followed by Children of Virtue and Vengeance. The final...

The only authoritative edition of Julius Caesar is the 1623 First Folio, which appears to have used the theater company's official promptbook rather than Shakespeare's manuscript. Some anomalies exist, most notably in Act Four where there is...

“The Yellowhammer’s Nest” is one of the best-known poems by the English Romantic poet John Clare. It was written in the mid-1820s and published in Clare’s final collection, The Rural Muse (1835), as part of a series of poems about bird’s nests....

Daniel Woodrell's Winter’s Bone is a 2006 mystery-crime novel about Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old girl whose family home will be seized unless she can find her missing father and make him appear in court. Determined to secure a place to live for...

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” is a poem by Tracy K. Smith which appears in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Conceived as a tribute to the author’s father who had worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the collection is...

"Ghazal" is a historical poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was published in the Wade in the Water collection by Graywolf Press in 2018. The collection won the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the 2018 Forward Prizes for...

"Declaration" was initially published in 2018 as a part of author Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection Wade in the Water. "Declaration" is told from the perspective of an African American taken captive aboard a pirate ship on the high seas.

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"Sci-Fi" is a poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was included in the Life on Mars collection published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. The collection is a lament for the poet's father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope at the National...

"The Journey" was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "The Journey" is one of Oliver's most widely read and well-respected works; it is a significant part...

"The Black Walnut," Mary Oliver's poem was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. The poem, which many have considered to be semi-autobiographical, is widely...

"Good-bye Fox," Mary Oliver's poem, was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "Good-bye Fox," one of the most cited works of Devotions, is an exploration of...

Mary Oliver's "The Swan" was originally published in 2010 in her collection of poems entitled Swan: Poems and Prose. "The Swan," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Oliver is best known...

Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" was initially published in 2004 in her collection of poems entitled Wild Geese: Selected Poems. "Wild Geese," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Much of...

Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" was originally published in 1992 in her collection of poems entitled New and Selected Poems. "The Summer Day," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a part of that collection.

"The Summer Day" is a...

Malgudi Days is a short-story collection by Indian writer R. K. Narayan. The book was initially published in 1943 in India by Indian Thought Publications. It was republished internationally by Penguin Classics in 1982.

The book follows the lives...

In “Autumn,” the English Romantic poet John Clare describes how the land changes as summer gives way to fall. The poem employs a string of similes to compare the autumnal landscape to the things of domestic country life. However, at the end of the...

R.F. Kuang's Babel was published in 2022 by HarperCollins. The year is 1828, and cholera has run roughshod in Canton, Wales, leaving Robin Swift orphaned. Desperate and alone, Robin is brought to London by mysterious Professor Lovell to train in...

Published by Tor in 2015, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps is a debut fantasy novella by American author Kai Ashante Wilson. Akin to the previous short stories, the tale takes place in the same fictional universe created by Wilson.

The story follows...

Published in 1981 by Bantam Books, Little, Big is a novel which critics called a "neglected masterpiece." The novel tells the story of a man named Smoky Barnable. He travels by foot from a city to another place called Edgewood. There, he intends...

Published in 1985, Deep Wizardry is a fantasy novel written by American author Diane Duane. It is the second book in the Young Wizards fantasy series following the novel So You Want to be a Wizard (1983). It was followed by High Wizardry (1993)...