"The House" is a poem by Warsan Shire. It was published in 2011 in Shire's first poetry collection, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. It focuses on womanhood, comparing a woman's body to a house equipped with different rooms that serve...

"The Birth-Mark" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most revered and gripping short stories. Published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer, the story examines human sin, evokes the perils of overweening ambition, and theorizes about gender...

The Big Lebowski is a stoner comedy and crime film from 1998 produced and directed by the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan). It follows Jeffrey "the Dude" Lebowski, an unemployed bowler and general slacker as he navigates a convoluted instance of...

Robert T. Kiyosaki began to publicly emphasize the importance of financial literacy in 1997, around the same time that Suze Orman began to use the same term quite frequently on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Before Kiyosaki's book was released the term...

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a 2016 self-help book by American psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth. The book was a New York Times bestseller for more than 20 weeks and integrates aspects of Duckworth's scientific background, making...

The 4-Hour Workweek is a book by American author and entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss. The book helps readers get acquainted with better ways to live life and earn money and has become popular in the ever-growing genre of self-help books. Selling over...

A realistic fiction novel, Girl at War was published in 2015 and written by American author Sara Novic. The book follows the story of Ana Juric, who is ten years old when the novel opens in 1991. She lives in the capital of Croatia, but, soon...

“All in green went my love riding,” one of E. E. Cummings’s most celebrated poems, was published in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys, Cummings' first published collection of poems. Written in the early years of Cummings’s career, it is perhaps one of...

"Anne Hathaway" appears in Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The World’s Wife, published in 1999. This collection moved women in well-known stories and myths to the foregrounds of their stories—spaces previously occupied by men. "Anne...

The Candy Shop War is a novel for children published by Brandon Mull in 2007. Mull is also the author of the very popular Fablehaven series of YA novels as well as its sequel series, Dragonwatch. The candy shop’s fictional setting of Colson is...

Aliens (1986) is James Cameron's follow-up to Ridley Scott's classic Alien (1976). It tells the story of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, who is rescued by a team after being in hypersleep for over 50 years. After, Ripley is tasked with helping marines...

Published in 1958, The Guide is a novel by Indian author R.K. Narayan set in his fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. It follows the life of an Indian man, Raju, as he evolves throughout his life to become one of the most prominent holy men in...

Edward Albee wrote The Sandbox on commission from the Festival of Two Worlds at the Spoleto Festival in Italy in 1959. Its first production took place in New York the following year. The Sandbox is linked to a longer play by Albee titled The...

First published in 1929, Tyrant Banderas is a critically-acclaimed novel by Spanish author and dramatists Ramon del Valle-Inclan. It was one of the most influential works in the Latin American genre of the "dictator novel", which consisted of...

Talent versus luck: this was a question that plagued Stephen King after his initial success as an author. How much of his success was due to talent, and how much due to the cult following he had amassed, and the fact that people bought his books...