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Olga Dies Dreaming is a domestic fiction novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, set in New York in 2017 and written in the third-person perspective. Gonzalez is an American writer born in 1977. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in creative...

To Paradise is a sci-fi novel by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Published in 2022 by Doubleday, the novel explores a parallel New York City in three different centuries. In this alternate world, same-sex marriage has been legal since the...

Out of My Heart is a middle-grade novel written by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper. It was published on November 9, 2021, by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. It is the sequel to Draper’s 2010 novel Out of My Mind continuing the story...

Pax, Journey Home is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. Published in 2021 by Balzer and Bray, the novel is the second book in the Pax series. It explores how the power of love and healing manifests in different settings...

Pax is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. It was published in 2016 by Balzer and Bray as the first book in the Pax series. Initially planned as a one-off novel, the sequel titled Pax, Journey Home was published in 2021.

Set...

Ain't Burned All the Bright is a book by American author Jason Reynolds. It was published in 2022 by Atheneum and Caitlyin Dlouhy Books. The three-part poem and visual illustrations explore the struggles of an African-American family coming to...

Destined to become the epicenter of misguided debate, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water is a picture book with verse designed to take the concepts and ideas of the original 1619 Project and make them accessible to readers in grades 2 through 5....

Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race is a nonfiction novel about the “human computers” who performed the calculations that launched humanity...

Among director Wong Kar-wai's most critically acclaimed films, In the Mood for Love (2000) is a tale about two Shanghainese transplants who, after becoming next-door neighbors in Hong Kong, learn that their spouses are having an affair. Instead of...

The Cellist of Sarajevo is a novel published in 2008 by Canadian author Stephen Galloway. It takes place against a backdrop of war in Sarajevo during the years of the Bosnian War.

The novel is not an historical report of the Siege of Sarajevo but...

"Wild nights - Wild nights!" is a three-stanza poem by Emily Dickinson, composed in 1861 and published in 1891 as part of the second posthumous collection of her writing. Dickinson never titled her poems, so they are commonly referred to by their...

Margaret Atwood's novel The Penelopiad was published in 2005. it tells the story of Penelope, Odysseus's wife in Homer's The Oddysey. In the novel, Penelope tells her life story, including her version of the events discussed in The Odyssey. While...

Don Paterson: Selected Poems is a collection of poems by Scottish poet Don Paterson. Published in 2012 by Faber & Faber, the collection is made up of twenty years worth of poems already published by the poet.

Paterson's most famous and...

“Incantations and Other Stories” by Anjana Appachana, an American writer of Indian heritage, is a collection of stories set in India. The stories follow everyday characters, women for the most part, who struggle with their daily lives in a country...

“The Planners” is a poem written by Singaporean-Australian poet Boey Kim Cheng that first appeared in his collection Another Place. Boey has won the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award and his poems have been included in the O-level and...

My Left Foot is a biographical drama film directed by Jim Sheridan in 1989. The film is based on the challenges faced by disabled persons in society that perceives them as defective and unhealthy. The protagonist in the film, Christy Brown, is...

"Sultana's Dream," written in 1905 by Begum Rokeya (also known as Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain), is a science-fiction short story first published in The Indian Ladies' Magazine that depicts a society in which the practice of purdah is inverted, thus...

Often interpreted as an allegory for the experience of oppressed Black Americans, Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" is a poem that compares the experience of a captive bird to a bird who lives freely. While the free bird soars through the sky and thinks...

"The Portent" is a poem by Herman Melville which describes the death of radical abolitionist John Brown. Brown was known for his murder of several slave owners at Pottowatomie Creek, Kansas and his failed raid on Harper's Ferry. The speaker...

Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain is a coming-of-age novel about a dysfunctional family living in Thatcher-era Glasgow, Scotland. The book won the 2020 Man Booker Prize.

Based on Stuart's own childhood, the novel centers on Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, the...

The Secret History is Donna Tartt's first novel; it was published in 1992, when Tartt was 29 years old. Like the protagonist Richard, Tartt had transferred to a small elite college in New England (Bennington College) after beginning her studies...

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is the debut young-adult novel by author Erika L. Sánchez. Prior to the novel's publication, Sánchez was widely celebrated for her poetry collection, entitled Lessons on Expulsion. I Am Not Your Perfect...

Beyond The Curve is a collection of short fictional stories by revered Japanese writer Kobu Abe. Although it is his first collection of short fiction it is widely considered to be his best. Each of the short stories included in the work tell the...

Though one of several Victorian poets whose legacies have endured, Robert Browning is arguably the hardest of his contemporaries to classify. His work equally reflects his remarkable intellectualism, his interest in grotesqueness, and his refusal...