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The Battle of Maldon refers to an alliterative poem glorifying an actual historical engagement which shares its name. The actual battle of Maldon occurred in 991 and pitted valorous Anglo-Saxon warriors against the Danish Vikings. The poem is...

Say What You Will is a contemporary young adult novel by Cammie McGovern, published on June 3, 2014. McGovern is an American author born in Illinois. This novel is her first young adult novel. The novel is centered around two main characters: Amy...

The Silence of the Lambs became the third novel published by Thomas Harris. His freshman effort about a mad bomber using a blimp to terrorize America at its very cultural soul—the Super Bowl—appeared to acclaim a dozen years earlier. Black Sunday...

British author Evelyn Waugh is far better known for his stories about classically British people in classically British settings like Brideshead Revisited. In fact, were it not for Brideshead Revisited, Waugh would likely never have written The...

The Blind Assassin is a novel published on September 3, 2000, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood was born in Ottawa and was raised there. The setting of the story is in Canada, where the story centers on three main characters: Iris, Laura,...

In the pantheon of science fiction writers, three names continue to arise in any argument over who has been the most influential: Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein. (Although, certainly, Bradbury, Verne, and H. G. Wells have their hardcore supporters...

The Heart of a Woman (1981) by Maya Angelou is the fourth book in her series of seven autobiographies. The Heart of a Woman tells the tale of Angelou as she leaves the world of show biz behind and moves to New York to become a writer and join the...

Guillaume de Machaut wrote The Fountain of Love (La Fonteinne Amoureuse), which was published during 1993 by Routledge. Machaut was a notable French poet and musician of the fourteenth century. "The Fountain of Love" is a popular love vision poem...

Before there was Al Pacino and the profanity-laden iconic gangster movie "Scarface", there was the 1932 version, directed by Howard Hawks, a movie that, although constrained far more than its modern counterpart by rules that prevented the showing...

Red Sorghum, written by Mo Yan, tells the story of the Chinese battling Japanese intruders as well as each other during the 1930s. Furthermore, it details the tragedy of the Chinese defending and preserving their culture through a series of...

Jez Butterworth wrote Jerusalem, a melancholic yet humorous play published during 2009 by Nick Hern Books. This play's setting and story plot are rooted in an English country community involving gangs and gypsies, among other things. Specifically,...

I Shall Not Hate (A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity) was written by Izzeldin Abuelaish, which is a riveting yet heart-breaking account of his life. It was first published during 2010 and was later published during 2011...

Peter Abelard was a French philosopher, poet, composer, and logician of the twelfth century. He was also known as a prominent theologian of the Middle Ages. He was born during 1079 and died during 1142. From a philosophical standpoint, he is...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is a well-regarded poet born during 1952 in Chapelton, a small town within Clarendon, Jamaica. After moving to London during 1963, he embarked on a compelling journey of educational achievements, political activism, and...

Inspired by The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret is a musical/drama film directed by Bob Fosse released in 1972. It was an extremely successful film, winning 8 Oscars and earning $48.2 million worldwide.

The movie is set in 1931...

"Berlin Stories" is a collection of short stories written by Christopher Isherwood, first published in 1935. The stories are set in Berlin during the early 1930s, a period of great social and political upheaval in Germany. Isherwood, an English...

George Meredith was an English poet and novelist in the Victorian Era. He originally read law and was on the path to be a lawyer but chose instead to abandon that career and pursue poetry and journalism. He began a literary magazine called the...

Excitement sizzled like electricity through the air when Tim Burton was announced as the director who would bring Batman back to the screen with a new big screen update promising to take the Caped Crusader back from the campy wilderness he’d been...

The Dark Knight Rises is the finale to the famed Batman trilogy directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan, and was released on July 2012 and distributed by Warner Bros.

In this movie, Christian Bale reprises his role as the infamous playboy...

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1927-2008) worked closely with her husband Robert A. Fernea for years as an ethnologist of African and Middle Eastern cultures. She has earned a reputation as a brilliant filmmaker and author. As a woman, her work in the...

Why Buddhism Is True or Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a non-fiction book published in 2017 by the American author Robert Wright.

Robert Wright wrote extensively about religion and in this book...

Maggie Nelson is an American writer born in 1973 and the author of the book The Argonauts. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, including a 2016 Macarthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" and a 2012 Creative Capital Leadership Fellowship. The...

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory is a book written by Bruno Latour and published in 2005. This text presents Latour’s revolutionary theory concerning the interaction between people in a society and what he calls “...

We Have Never Been Modern is a book written by Bruno Latour, published in 1991. It was originally written and published in French, and later translated into English, in 1993. Latour is a French sociologist, philosopher, professor, and writer. He...