When Charley Met Emma is a fictional children's book that focuses of the story between Charley, a young boy, and Emma, a young girl who is in a wheelchair. When Charley first sees Emma at the playground, he is a little bit scared because he has...

Hell of a Book, a novel written by Jason Mott, tells a story about an author who is on his way to tour the US promoting his work. The novel unfolds in various directions: contemplation of oneself, the narrator’s self-reflection and sense of unease...

Revolution in Our Time is a non-fiction work originally published on November 8, 2021 by Kekla Magoon. The piece gives an account of the Black Panther Party, a group of African American human rights fighters and revolutionaries. The book details...

The Story of Tom Brennan is a young-adult novel by Australian author J.C. Burke. In the wake of a horrible accident, 17-year-old Tom Brennan must deal with the imprisonment of his brother and his move to a new town. Although he struggles to keep...

The Legend of Auntie Po is a graphic historical fiction novel written and illustrated by Shing Yin Khor and published on June 15, 2021. The book follows the story of a queer 13-year-old named Mei, who is working in the United States in 1885. Life...

“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” is a novel written by Malinda Lo, and tells the story about a young Chinese girl called Lily Hu living in San Francisco during the 1950s. The novel is a young adult fiction heavily leaning on romance.

The main...

House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed is a novel by Sara Gay Forden. Published in 2001 by Custom House publishing, it explores the Gucci family, their fashion dynasty, and a gruesome murder that defined this...

Stuntboy in the Meantime is a graphic Young Adult novel by Jason Reynolds which was originally published on November 9, 2021. The book tells the story of Portico Reeves, a mild-mannered school student whose secret identity is Stuntboy. Portico...

Blue Jasmine is an American film by filmmaker Woody Allen. Released in 2013, the comedic drama was theatrically distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. The film explores the life of a formerly rich socialite who has to live with her working-class...

It may be only a coincidence that Hollywood’s obsession with horror icons began to move in earnest from vampires to zombies around the time that Let the Right One In was released in 2008, but it sure doesn’t feel like mere coincidence. In fact,...

"HG Wells' novel "Tono-Bungay" was published in 1909. The novel is a satirical social commentary on the changing society and the impact of industrialization and capitalism on the lives of ordinary people in England during the late 19th and early...

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino (2008) is a drama film about Walt Kowalski, a widowed Korean War veteran who becomes an unlikely hero to his Hmong-American neighbors.

Set in Highland Park, Michigan, the film depicts the...

Class Act is Jerry Craft’s 2020 sequel (though described by the author as a “companion piece”) to his multi-award-winning graphic New Kid published to universal acclaim the year before. While New Kid focused on the experiences of Jordan Banks as a...

All the Bright Places is the first Young Adult novel by Jennifer Niven. Published on January 6, 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group, All the Bright Places received positive reviews from The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and The Guardian, and...

"The Arrival of the Bee Box" is a poem by Sylvia Plath describing a speaker who orders a box full of bees and tries to figure out how to treat them. The poem was first published in Plath's posthumous 1965 poetry collection Ariel. It belongs to a...

With its publication in 2014, Bark became Lorrie Moore’s first all-new collection of short stories since her highly regarded Birds of America appeared in 1998. Among the plaudits which this volume earned were short-list nominations for two...

The Promise by Damon Galgut details a promise which takes four decades to be fulfilled. The book was set in South Africa and reflects change over a period of forty changes. The family’s Matriarch, Rachel, is terminally ill. Salome, the housemaid,...

Nick and the Candlestick is a poem by British-American writer Sylvia Plath, in which a mother compares herself to a miner in a cave before addressing her newborn child. "Nick and the Candlestick" was first published in Plath's posthumous poetry...

"Personal Helicon," a five-stanza poem by Irish writer Seamus Heaney, describes a child's love of exploring wells from the perspective of his adult self. It links the process of exploring the physical world to both self-examination and poetic...

John Updike is one of America’s most famous writers of serious literature. And the literature he produced spans the full gamut of form and genre. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, criticism, and, yes, poetry. There is almost no major award...