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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 Castle is an Australian film by filmmaker Rob Sitch. Released in 1997, the comedy flick was theatrically distributed by Roadshow Entertainment. The film explores the everyday life of the Australian working-class with a touch of humor and...

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...

Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels is a 1961 English-language novel about several Filipino characters grappling with their identities after the Philippines gains independence from the U.S. following World War II.

When Connie, a wealthy...

“The Gift of the Magi” remains one of the most influential short stories of author O. Henry’s career—and the history of American literature altogether. First published in 1905 in the New York Sunday World, the quintessential Christmas tale...

"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...

Fever Dream is a novel by Argentinian author Samantha Schweblin. Initially titled Distancia de rescate, and written in Spanish, it was published in 2014. It was later translated for the English-speaking world by Megan McDowell and published in...

The Lost Daughter was published by Elena Ferrante in 2006 with the first English translation reaching bookstores two years later. That original publication date was a full decade before Ferrante would be named one of the 100 Most Influential...

The Last Black Unicorn is an autobiographical book written by stand-up comedian, actress, and author Tiffany Haddish published on 5th December 2017. In 2017, she had her breakout role in the film Girls Trip which escalated her comedic and film...

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a memoir by American actress Issa Rae. Published by 37 Ink in 2015, the book explores Rae's life and chronicles her experiences as an introverted African-American girl in a collection of stories and...

The Housing Lark is a novel written by a Trinidad-born writer and journalist Samuel Selvon. The novel presents a comedic caricature of the experience of the West Indian immigrants in London. It shows the life and interactions of people of various...

Published on 26th October 2021, Daughter of the Deep is a science fiction novel written by New York Bestselling author Rick Riordan. The standalone book is a departure from Riordan’s pentalogy book series such as Percy Jackson & the Olympians...

The Thursday Murder Club seems like a no-brainer for someone connected with British television to eventually come to write. After all, the list of memorable British crime dramas is longer than the list of memorable American detective novels. Where...

In 2018, journalist Abe Streep published an article in the New York Times Magazine about a basketball team situated on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Arlee, Montana. Three years later he published a greater expanded version of that article as...

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City is a novel by American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliot. Initially published in 2013 as a five-part article for The New York Times, Elliot expanded it into a book....

Kate DiCamillo is a wildly successful author of children’s novels probably most famous and familiar to readers as the author of Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. In addition to penning the popular Mercy Watson series for younger...

Pony is a historical fiction novel written by R. J. Palacio that was published on 28 September 2021. The novel is set in the American frontier in 1860 and blends the historical elements with magical realism. In the same vein as True Grit and War...

As part of her ongoing attempt to recapture that lightning in a bottle which made her a household name in millions of households around the globe with the publication of the original Harry Potter novel, J.K. Rowling published The Christmas Pig in...

Anyone even just remotely familiar with the highlight reel of ancient Greek mythology is likely to recognize exactly where the author Pat Barker has placed the reader in the opening scene of her 2021 novel, The Women of Troy. The very first words...