Nappily Ever After is a 2018 Netflix original based on the novel of the same name which was written by Trisha R. Thomas. It is a romantic-comedy film, written by Adam Brooks and Cee Marcellus and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour.

The film follows the...

Sarah Baartman was a Khoekhoe woman, descending from the indigenous nomadic people of southwestern Africa. She was known as the Hottentot Venus, and in the early part of the nineteenth century was put on display throughout Europe, much like other...

Orphan of Asia, completed in 1945, is an autobiographical novel by Chuo-liu Wu, dramatizing the internal, external, and personal struggles of the protagonist Hu Taiming. This central character is “born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan” and grows up...

Based on the novel of same name by Winston Groom, Robert Zemeckis' 1994 film Forrest Gump tells the story of a mentally and physically challenged man in 1960s Alabama, and his various foibles and incredible luck. It chronicles Forrest's early...

Brooklyn is one of Colm Tóibín's most popular and best-known works. Published in 2009, it achieved both critical and commercial success. It was translated into 22 languages, and sold more than a quarter of a million copies. It was longlisted for...

John Ford’s The Searchers is considered to be one of the greatest American westerns of all time. Released in 1956, it is based on a novel by Alan Le May and depicts a version of the Texas-Indian wars. A commercial as well as critical success, the...

Trumpet is a novel written by Jackie Kay in 1998. It was the first novel she wrote, and it won the 1998 Guardian Fiction Prize.

Trumpet begins with the death of Joss Moody, a highly successful jazz musician, and documents the different reactions...

Published in 1973, Stephen King's Carrie is an epistolary horror novel that takes the form of collected newspaper clippings, letters and diary entries to tell the tale of how bullied misfit Carrie White uses her telekinetic powers to avenge her...

Published in 1998, Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother was inspired by the death of Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl who was killed in South Africa while trying to organize the nation's first truly democratic elections. Biehl was murdered very...

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (released in 2002) is a collaboration between Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman with the goal of explaining and perhaps more importantly, debunking the growing movement...

The Diary of Anais Nin is the publication of the real manuscript diary of Anais Nin, hence the title. Nin started the diary at the age of 11 in 1914 while on a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. She started it initially...

The Prestige is one of Christopher Nolan’s famed cinematography works, staring notable actors including Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, as well as renowned musician David Bowie. The thriller was released on October 17, 2006 and distributed by...

The Mist is a novella penned by the godfather of horror writing, Stephen King. It tells the story of a mist that suddenly envelops the small town of Bridgton in Maine; the mist is not a natural phenomenon but an evil one, and it hides monsters...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote "The Blessed Damozel" when he was 19 years old. It was one of the very first poems of his career, and it later became one of the most influential poems of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The first version of "The Blessed...

Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye came about at a critical moment in the history of American civil rights. Morrison began Pecola's story as a short piece in 1962; it became a novel-in-progress by 1965. It was written, as one can see from the...

Deborah Miranda's 2012 book Bad Indians is a unique one, particularly because its unique structure and because it is a mixed-genre book. To that end, the book is both a history of the authors tribe of California Indians and a memoir of the authors...