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Written by British author Matt Ridley and published in 1999, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapter, or, Genome for short, is a popular science publication. The book has 23 chapters because of the 22 human chromosomes as well as an...

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women is a collection of short stories written by the famous author Alice Walker. Alice Walker is an American writer, poet, and activist. She has written many books about black people and their sufferings. She...

Ten is a horror-mystery novel by noted Young-Adult author Gretchen McNeil. It was published in 2012 and since then has been translated into multiple languages.

The protagonists of Ten are Meg and Minnie, two best friends who are eager to attend a...

Bruce Dawe was in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia in 1930. Due to his family's relative lack of wealth, he was unable to complete his primary education. At the age of 16, he took various jobs to help support his family, including work at a mill...

Soren Kierkegaard composed Fear and Trembling under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio. He wrote it to discuss the stories from Genesis, and is in reference to the book of Philippians. Part of the inspiration for the book was an effort to...

The Yellow Arrow is a short allegorical story by Russian author Victor Pelvin, known for his postmodernist style and his method of incorporating pop culture and philosophy into his works. Pelvin's The Yellow Arrow has been re-published multiple...

Heda Margoulis Kovaly originally published her memoir under the title "The Victors and The Vanquished" in Canada in 1973. A second version, "I Do Not Want To Remember", was published later the same year in the U.K. The memoir tells of the years...

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents is a collection of short stories by legendary science fiction writer H G. Wells. The introduction by Wells indicates that the bulk of the collection appeared originally in Pall Mall Budget, the Pall Gazette...

We do not know who wrote "The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee," but the anonymous author of this Eighteenth Century Chinese detective novel gives us a great insight into the way in which the criminal justice system worked in the country at that...

Written by vehement feminist Joanna Russ, The Female Man is a science fiction novel published in 1975. It is extremely notable for its challenging of traditional gender roles and sexist views during the 1900's.

The Female Man centers around four...

Simon Armitage: Poems is a collection of a few of Simon Armitage’s works. Armitage is an English writer who specializes in poetry, plays, and novels. In addition to the poems that are included in this work, Armitage has written additional poetry,...

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LLD, was written by Scotsman James Boswell. It is a travel journal that was published in 1785. It documents a trip that Boswell took with his English friend Samuel Johnson whom Boswell...

Samuel Johnson, more widely known as Dr Johnson published his book "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", in 1775. The book was the journal of a three month trip to Scotland that he took with his dear friend and biographer, James Boswell,...

Theogony (meaning "birth of the gods"), is a poem that was orally composed by Hesiod in roughly 700 BC, and outlines the origins and genealogy of the Greek gods. It is considered to be Hesiod's first work. Hesiod, along with Homer, is considered...

Winnie the Pooh is the most beloved bear in the world and one of the reasons for this is his particular way of doing things. Benjamin Hoffman brilliantly shoes the similarity between Pooh's Way and Taoism. His book explains both Taoism by...

A Cyborg Manifesto is a critical feminist essay published by Donna Haraway in 1984. The essay is one of a series centering around the same subjects. Haraway is a prominent science scholar and distinguished thinker, and The Cyborg Manifesto is one...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American feminist writer who published a large amount of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1860 to a prominent family. At a young age, however, Gilman's father abandoned his...

In a way, Maria Edgeworth is to turn of the 19th century British literature what Edith Wharton is to turn of the 20th century American literature. Like Wharton, Edgeworth fashioned a series of novels that traced the declining fortunes of a wealthy...

Guy Debord published Society of the Spectacle in the original French in 1967. Three years later he published the English version. The book is an essential foundation for understanding and taking part in the anarcho-anticonsumerist-Marxist movement...

The Dialectic of Enlightenment is a groundbreaking philosophical and sociological work written by philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. In it, they explore and critique society and culture specifically pertaining to the age of...

Today it is common knowledge that Big Business will go to any lengths to find out information about you in order to better sell you stuff. It is also becoming far less of a secret that these companies accomplish by selling the fiction of tailoring...

"The Unbearable Weight of Staying" is a poem written by Warsan Shire, an acclaimed poet and social activist. This poem appears in her book Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, which was published during 2011 by Flipped Eye. In pages saturated...

Warsan Shire is a young (born in 1988) London-based Kenyan-born female writer from Somali whose strength as a poet lies in her straightforwardness. Most of her poems, like the one is question, “Difficult Names”, are in prose, which defies the...

The Dream Songs, by John Berryman, is a book of poems about a man named Henry. Berryman was an American poet who was born in 1914 and died in 1972. It was first published in 1969. The book of poetry revolves around the life of the main character,...