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Stephen Frears's film The Queen, released in 2006, broadly tells the story of Princess Diana's tragic death and the response (or lack thereof) of the royal family in the days following her death. Particularly, the film centers on Queen Elizabeth...

The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem written by Robert Henryson sometime in the 15th-century. The poem was translated into modern English by Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, in 2009.

The poem follows the life of Trojan woman, Cresseid, who...

Vathek is a Gothic novel written by English novelist William Beckford. The book was first published in 1786, with the original title being "An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript." Originally, it was claimed the novel was translated from...

The Black Atlantic is a non-fiction historical book about a distinct "black Atlantic" culture and identity, which includes aspects of African, Caribbean, American, and British cultures simultaneously. The book was published in 1993 by Harvard...

Sir Orfeo is a Middle English narrative lay written by an anonymous author in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a retelling of the story of the ancient Greek Prophet, Orpheus, and his brave quest to rescue his wife from the Fairy King.

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From one of the most prominent authors of today, Stardust is another Neil Gaiman’s successful fantasy novel set in the 19th century in meadows of England. The novel was also adapted into a successful movie in the year 2007.

The novel’s protagonist...

It is often said that Stephen King's On Writing is arguably one of the most important books that explores the craft of writing. Over the course of this 291 page book, King writes about his career as a best-selling, award-winning writer and how he...

Morning Star is a science fiction novel written by novelist Pierce Brown, and is part three of his Red Rising trilogy. The book was published in the US on February 9, 2016 by Del Rey Books. It si preceded by both Red Rising (2014) and Golden Son...

The second novel in author Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Golden Sun (originally published in 2015, just one year after the first novel in the trilogy), continues Darrow's story as he still struggles to destroy the society on future Mars from...

The first book in what later became a trilogy of the same name, Red Rising (which was originally published in 2014), tells the incredibly compelling story of a lowborn miner called Darrow, who has grown up on Mars (in the future) yearning for a...

Produced for the first time at Griffin Theatre Company in 1986, Away is the best known of Michael Gow's plays, both within Australia and around the world. Gow had just turned 30 before the play was written, and in writing it, Gow has said that he...

Billion Dollar Loser is about one of the most striking business sagas in recent American history. It tells the story of Adam Neumann and the details about his starting of the company WeWork, which became a billion-dollar freelance company. The...

Peccavi is a novel written by English author Ernest William Hornug, and published in 1900 when the latter was 34 years of age. The book came after many successful literary works including short stories, novels, journalistic work, and non-fiction.

The poem is based on the grief and loss of the narrator with complete vibrant imagery. The poet is reminiscing about his daughter's death, ‘pearl,’ when he falls asleep in a garden. The speaker starts dreaming about a beautiful land where he spots...

Stephen Crane was an American poet and novelist, and was a key figure in the Naturalism and Impressionism movements. His poems convey themes relating to death, loss, war, religion and love.

Crane’s poetry was unusual for his time, due to the use...

Likely begun immediately after the completion of the Inferno, Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Purgatorio is the second of the three canticles (sets of cantos) which make up the Divine Comedy or the Commedia. It follows Dante and Virgil as they...

Gary Soto's poem "Oranges" first appeared in his fifth collection of poetry, Black Hair, in 1985. The poem appeared a few years later in a collection of poetry geared towards young writers, A Fire in My Hands, in 1991. This collection of poetry...

Artemis Fowl is a young-adult fantasy novel about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind from Dublin. Unlike most main characters in young-adult novels, Artemis is an antihero instead of the hero of the series. He is a deviant mastermind whose...

The short stories of Julio Cortazar belong to a Latin American tradition of fiction known as magical realism. Weird things occur in seemingly normal circumstances, such as a tiger having the free run of an ancestral home while people go about...

Scarborough is a novel by Catherine Hernandez released in 2017 by Arsenal Pulp Press, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scarborough was named co-winner of the 2015 Asian-Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writers Award for fiction. It was...

Based on Rosalie Ham's 2000 novel of the same name, The Dressmaker, released in 2015, tells the story of Tilly Dunnage (played by Kate Winslet), a dressmaker who returns to her rural hometown in Australia to care for her ailing mother (played by...

Alphonse Daudet's 1873 short story "The Last Lesson" is about Franz, an Alsatian schoolboy who arrives late to school one morning to learn that Germany, having annexed the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France, has decreed the French language will...

Curious thing about the genre of fiction known as Southern Gothic: not much of it takes place in definitely the most southern and arguably the most gothic of Dixie. Of course, there is no argument that geographically, Florida is the deepest one...

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen is a political autobiography written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Antonio Vargas. The book was published on 17 June 2019 by Dey Street Books.

The book details Vargas’ experience as an...