Crisis in the Red Zone is a non-fiction book about the Ebola outbreak, which began in 2013. Written by American author Richard Preston, the book details the devastating and deadly impact the virus had, and the attempts that were made to discover a...

Cate Kennedy's second short story collection, Like a House on Fire, was published in 2012 by Scribe. In the collection, Kennedy explores topics of displacement, illness, recovery, dependence, and motherhood, among other things. The stories in this...

Schmoedipus is an anthology series by English television dramatist, Dennis Potter and was released on 1975 by BBC (United Kingdom).

The story follows the reunion of a mother, Elizabeth Carter, and her son, Glen, who she had given away at birth....

Hatchet, published by Bradbury Press in 1987, is Gary Paulsen's best-known novel. It is the first of five in the Hatchet series, detailing the events in Brian Robeson's life after he ends up stranded in a forest after the pilot of a bush plane he...

Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow was originally published in 1961 by Houghton Mifflin. Set in Israel, the novel follows a young man named Daniel bar Jamin, who is alive at the same time that Jesus of Nazareth is. After his father is killed...

O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief," written in 1907, is a comedic short story about two kidnappers who are traumatized by the ten-year-old they abduct, eventually having to pay the boy's father to take him back. Although the kidnappers are...

Seamus Heaney's poem "Death of a Naturalist" appears in a collection with the same name. Published in 1966, Death of a Naturalist is recognized as Seamus Heaney's first major volume, and it was well-received by critics, boosting Heaney's career...

Anna in the Tropics is a play by Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz, originally commissioned in 2001 and performed for the first time in Miami in 2002. Later, it premiered on Broadway in 2003.

When writing the play, Cruz has stated that his...

1Q84 is an alternate history fiction written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with the first two volumes published on May 29, 2009, by Shinchosha. The third volume was later published on April 16, 2010. The English-language versions of the...

Written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic tales and legends of the fictional universe Eä. It was posthumously edited and published in 1977 by his son, Christopher Tolkien, with aid from fiction...

The Book of Job in the Bible addresses the sufferings and eventual contentment of a man named Job. The story’s structure is set in form of a prose prologue and prose epilogue. The story revolves around Job, a blessed and wealthy man. Satan is not...

Daniel Handler is an American writer who goes under the pen name Lemony Snicket. “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a series of several children-novels following the three siblings who became orphaned and have to struggle to survive in a world...

Psalm 23: Background Analysis

Although there is disagreement over the precise origin of Psalm 23, it is typically credited to King David of Israel and Judah, who is believed to have lived circa 1000 BCE. David, who was raised as a shepherd, is...

Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley was first published in 1904 and has been reprinted several times since then. It encompasses Bradley’s lectures on Shakespearean criticism as a professor at Oxford University from 1901 up to the time of...

Artemis is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Weir and was first published on November 14, 2017, by Crown Publishing. The audiobook is narrated by Rosario Dawson. The novel was extremely well-received by the public and won the 2017 best...

Although English poet Wilfred Owen wrote this poem in 1918, it was not published until 1920, almost two full years after his death. Like most of his poems, it deals with the trauma that soldiers continue to deal with after they have left the...

"Mother" is Vietnamese-Australian author Vuong Pham's poem about his mother. Published in 2013 as a part of his mini-collection Refugee Prayer, "Mother" examines the relationship between Vuong and his mother. Together, the two immigrated to...

Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential figures of English literature. Both a novelist and a poet, he created work that is highly concerned with the Victorian era criticism and deals with themes of social and psychological struggle.

“Channel...

Thomas Hardy is a Victorian-era English author best known for novels like Far From the Madding Crowd and Tess of d'Urbervilles. However, Hardy was also a prolific poet. His poems, including "The Man He Killed," written and published in 1902, were...

Although Victorian-era English author Thomas Hardy was best known for novels like Far From the Madding Crowd, he wrote countless poems which are well-respected and still read throughout the world to this day.

Among his most famous poems is "The...

Ted Hughes was an English poet who was known for his themes of nature and animals in his poetry. He was born in 1930 in Yorkshire, England, and served in the Royal Air Force before studying English literature at Cambridge University. He was...