Arguably the most popular of Saki’s short stories, “The Open Window” first appeared in Beasts and Super Beasts, a collection of short stories published in 1914 just before Munro went to fight in World War I. “The Open Window” is appreciated most...

What Girls Need is a book highlighting the skills and traits that girls need to cultivate to become the leading light in a patriarchal society. Marisa Porges, the author, narrates how girls should map new ways to inhabit traits like bravery,...

Rage is a story of Donald Trump, president of the United States, concerning his handling of COVID-19. During one of their encounters, Bob Woodward, the author of the book, recalls Trump saying, “I bring rage out.” Mr. Trump was boasting on how he...

In Parenthesis is an epic poem based on the First World War, written by David Jones. The poem was published in England in 1937.

The poem is split into seven parts and follows the journey of Private John Ball as he embarks on his infantry service...

The Tradition is a collection of poems written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown. it was published on 2 April 2019 by Copper Canyon Press. It is Brown’s third collection, following on from his book The New Testament (2004).

The poems cover...

A Promised Land is a memoir by the former 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and is due to be released on November 17, 2020 by Crown Publishing.

The personal account details the life of Obama through his younger years to his...

Katherine Mansfield's 1922 short story "The Doll's House" is about the daughters of the wealthy Burnell family receiving an elaborate doll's house which the girls show off to children at school. The Burnell girls' mother forbids them from inviting...

Coming Plague, The: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance is a global health book written by Laurie Gerrett and was published by Penguin Books on 01 October 1995.

The book entails the real-life events that have shaken the world in the...

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a human rights book exploring the history of genocides in the 20th century. It was written by Professor Samantha Power and was published by Basic Books on February 20, 2002.

The book...

Scott Turow details his experiences and struggles at Harvard Law School in One L. The book was published in 1977. Turow outlines the challenges he encountered as a first-year law student at the prestigious institution. Turow married at the age of...

The book is based on the criticism of the American healthcare system by Timothy Snyder. Snyder argues from experience in his recent medical emergency. Doctors treating him made a series of mistakes because they had little time to evaluate his...

Roald Dahl's 1949 short story "The Sound Machine" is about Klausner, an obsessive man who invents a machine that allows him to hear high-pitched sounds otherwise inaudible to the human ear. While testing his sound machine, Klausner discovers that...

Cleomelia is a tale by Eliza Haywood dominated by British investment politics in a striking foreign trade and speculation. The book’s setting is a politically delicate place of Bengal. Speculative investment and female sexuality had developed...

Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1938 novel Nausea follows Antoine Roquentin, a historian suffering under a strange affliction he calls “The Nausea.” As the novel unfolds, Antoine’s Nausea worsens. Slowly, his philosophical diaries expand on his condition,...