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...

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 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...