Play is one of the many experimental one-act dramatic presentations written by Samuel Beckett in a career devoted to questioning the conventions and properties of stage drama. Utilizing such standard traditional literary terminology, it is the...

First published in 1992, Poor Things is a novel by the Scottish author and artist Alasdair Gray. The novel is set in the Victorian era, and takes into account some of Gray's views on inequality and relationships. The main character of the novel is...

Are people mad because of society's influence upon them, or is their insanity something that occurs from within, independent of the world and what is happening in it? This is the central question that German psychologist, philosopher and Marxist...

We think of autumn as a time of relaxation and celebration: the year winds down, the air grows cooler, and summer's greenery fades to a vibrant display of rust and gold. We speak of the season's beauty, and often mourn its passing. But we may not...

There There is Tommie Orange’s debut novel, published in 2018 and hailed as a stunning contribution to a new generation of contemporary indigenous writing in North America. This new wave of writers is marked by their experiments with form and a...

Peter Pan is playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie's most famous work, published both as a play in 1904 and in 1911 as a novel. It tells the story of the magical Peter Pan, who flies into the Darling family's nursery in London one night and...

Everyone thinks that they know the plot of traditional fairy tales forwards, backwards and upside down; however, Roald Dahl intends to prove otherwise with the shortest book he ever wrote, Revolting Rhymes, which is a collection of poetic parodies...

Charles Lamb wore many hats as a writer, dedicating his early career to poetry and writing a well known adaptation of Shakespeare's plays for children entitled Tales from Shakespeare. But as an individual writer, Lamb is arguably best known for...

Knight of Cups is a philosophical drama, sometimes with mystical notes, about screenwriter Rick. Rick is a screenwriter who cannot understand the strange things that happen around him. After his brother's death, his relationship with his father...

American author Henry Miller’s Black Spring was written between 1932 and 1933 while he was living in a suburb of Paris. However, the book was not released in the United States until 1963 due to strict obscenity laws. Nevertheless, it covers the...

Woody Allen is an anomaly in the film industry. While putting out a film every two or three years is enough for a director to be considered prolific, Woody Allen was putting out a film nearly every year between 1971. While some of his most highly...

Wild was first published in 2012. Strayed had already published a novel, numerous essays, and was the author of the successful advice column "Dear Sugar"; however, the extreme success of the memoir drastically altered her career. Wild was an...

This lesser-known Dickens novel was published under the longer and more formal title of Barnaby Rudge : A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, but over the years, this has been abridged to a less unwieldy Barnaby Rudge. It is an historical novel that is...

Around 1868 Emile Zola had the idea of writing a series of novels that would be devoted to one family - Rougon-Macquart. The fates of the members of this family have been investigated for several generations. The first books from the series did...