Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) is one of the many classic films released during the 1970s and 1980s depicting the Vietnam War (other films of that era include Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter). The film was a major critical and financial success....

Andy Weir self-published The Martian as an e-book in 2011. An example of "hard sf," in which factual speculation is minimized, The Martian includes scientific descriptions of space-flight, rocketry, thermodynamics, biology, and other phenomena.

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Mary Harron's 2000 film American Psycho is a sharp, satirical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, delving into the dark recesses of 1980s Wall Street culture. The film follows Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker whose obsession...

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was a British writer, scholar, and Christian apologist, best known for his works on literature, theology, and philosophy. A prolific...

Nisei Daughter is the story of Monica Sone's experiences as a Japanese American in the 1920s and 1930s, growing up in Seattle, never really feeling that she fit in anywhere. It is also the story of the Japanese American experience in post-Pearl...

In the late nineteen eighties, a magazine called New Woman hit the shelves in the U.K. Less political than empowering, the magazine positioned itself as a publication for women who were confident, independent, and perfectly capable of taking care...

"Bogland" appears in Seamus Heaney's second collection of poetry, Door Into The Dark (1969), which details Heaney's rural upbringing. "Bogland" is the final poem in the book, which is written with a great deal of attention devoted to evoking...

Highly controversial in its time, Blasted is British author Sarah Kane's first play. It premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre. It has many shocking and rather gruesome elements, including rape, cannibalism, and suicide, elements which...

Archie Weller did not take a traditional route to the top of the literary tree in his native Australia, although since modern Australia is a country that was created to house criminals transported from Britain, it is actually quite fitting. After...

Although Mick Jackson's Denial (2016) was a critical success, it was a massive box office bomb. It took only $8 million against a budget of $10 million dollars. Typically, films must make two to three times their budget in order to make a profit...

Simple Recipes is a book containing eight short stories centered around different families in different circumstances. It is written by Chinese American novelist Madeleine Thien, first published in 2001 and then later republished in 2002 by...

A.M. Klein certainly had an interesting life. Born in February 1909, Klein was a poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer. However, he is best-known for his poetry. Some of his most-famous poems include: "Out of the Pulver and the...

Nnedi Okorafor had never intended to become a writer; a talented track runner in her teens, Okorafor was a nationally-ranked athlete, and also excelled academically with a particular interest in the sciences. Her plan was to attend college on a...

Kitchen is the novel that truly made Banana Yoshimoto, considered one of Japan’s most esteemed contemporary writers, famous and earned her the acclamation of critics and the public alike. Published in 1987, it rapidly became a bestseller; to date,...

That Hideous Strength is the third novel in what is known as C.S. Lewis's "Space Trilogy" (the first two being Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, respectively). These works of science fiction are notably out of keeping with the rest of...

Perelandra is the second novel in what is known as C.S. Lewis's "Space Trilogy" (the first being Out of the Silent Planet, and the conclusion being That Hideous Strength). These works of science fiction are notably out of keeping with the rest of...

G.K. Chesterton was a devout man who wrote Christian apologetics profusely; he converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism when he began to feel that the Anglican church was losing sight of its orthodoxy and relaxing its principles too much. The...

A devout Catholic, Chesterton was, by his own admission, irritated by critics who objected to his Christian apologetics writings. Chesterton wrote a great deal in defense of Christianity, the most well-known of these writings being Heretics. When...