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“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...

"The Fun They Had" was written by Isaac Asimov and first published in a children's magazine in 1951. The text is Asimov's most anthologized story, and was reprinted several times in the following decades.

Whereas is a poem by Layli Long Soldier that responds to the congressional apology to native tribes in the US. The congressional apology was signed in obscurity by then President of the US Barack Obama. Native people have long suffered systematic...

Crooked Hallelujah is a contemporary novel by Native-American author Kelli Jo Ford. It was published in 2020 by Grove Press. The novel explores the lives of Native-American women throughout multiple generations, as they strive to make life better...

The Road Back to Sweatgrass is a coming-of-age novel by Native-American author Linda LeGarde Grover. It was published in 2014 by the University of Minnesota Press. In the 1970s, Margie, Dale, and Theresa live in the Ojibwe reservation which, like...

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky is a historical fiction novel written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Margaret Verble. It was published on 12th October 2021 by Mariner Books. The narrative blends a bit of magical realism with real history...

Piranesi is a high fantasy novel by British author Susanna Clarke. Published in 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the novel is about a magical world known as The House full of secrets, manipulation, and adventure. Piranesi is a man who lives in this...

Blacktop Wasteland is a novel written by S.A. Cosby involving a crime. The main character of the book is Beauregard Montage who struggles to provide for his family. Beauregard is a former criminal and has assured his friends and family that he won...

Winter Counts is a crime thriller novel written by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and was published in 2020 by Ecco—an imprint of HarperCollins. It is Weiden’s debut novel and managed to make it on the year’s top lists including the New York Times...

The Only Good Indians is a fantasy horror novel by horror fiction writer Stephen Graham Jones. It tells the story of a group of Native Americans who are stalked by a female elk whom the men had killed in an illicit hunt when they were boys. The...

The Year They Burned The Books is a novel for young adults by Nancy Garden, a magazine editor-turned young adult novelist who seems to have much in common with Jamie, her protagonist.

The novel tells the story of Jamie, the editor of the high...

Reluctantly Alice is a young-adult novel by American author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It is the third book in the Alice series, consisting of twenty-five books. Published in 1991 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, the novel continues exploring...

The Underground Girls of Kabul is a book by Jenny Nordberg that explores the lives of young girls in Afghanistan that are compelled by culture and traditions to dress like boys. Nordberg is a Swedish investigative journalist who unravels the...

We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates writes about white supremacy and black identity in eight years during the presidency of Barack Obama. The author claims that his career was elevated after Obama...