"The first casualty, when war comes, is truth." So said Hiram Johnson, a progressive Republican senator from California; his words referred to World War One, the conflict around which this novel is woven.

This is the crux of the matter in Ben...

Written around 1956, “An Arundel Tomb” was published in Larkin’s 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings and is one of his most famous poems. The book was a commercial success by poetry standards. In the poem, the speaker is inspired by seeing a pair...

Life of Galileo, aka Galileo, is a play by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1938 and first performed at the Zurich Schauspielhaus in 1943. At the time of its premiere, Brecht, who typically directed his own plays, handed over directorial duties to...

In the early 1990s, women were feeling pressure like never before, specifically, pressure to do what was loosely termed (mostly by male journalists) as "have it all". In fact, a book called Having It All was published during the same year that The...

In his political allegory Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote that "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." This observation sums up the Cultural Revolution in China that took place in the 1960s; Communist dictator Mao Tse Tung,...

Published in 2010, The Hairdresser of Harare is a fictional book by Zimbabwean author Tendai Huchu. The book focuses on how Zimbabwe is in the present day, rapidly changing and expanding based upon influential western ideas. All of the book is...

An aubade is a poem traditionally set at dawn or early morning, and typically about parting lovers. This “Aubade” doesn’t involve love, however, despite its fitting setting. In the poem, which uses an ABABCCDEED rhyme scheme, the speaker wakes up...

"Cat Person" is a short story published in The New Yorker in December 2017, which quickly went viral, attaining significant praise on the internet, especially within certain feminist circles.

The story is told from the point of view of Margot, a...

The Aftermath is a novel written by Welsh author Rhidian Brook and published in 2013. The book is set in Hamburg, Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The story centers around a British colonel, Lewis Morgan, who is tasked with...

In the 1960s, the new age of technology seemed to create a level of paranoia amongst the population that led to a generalized fear of apocalypse; it is this post-apocalyptic future that British author J.G. Ballard sets his 1962 novel The Drowned...

The Demon Lover is a 2011 erotic fantasy novel by Juliet Dark, a pseudonym ("pen name") of award-winning American author Carol Goodman. The novel is the first installment of the Fairwick Trilogy, which centers on protagonist Callie McFay, a...