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Antigonick is Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles' Antigone. The project, which is a comic-book presentation of the classic Greek work was collaborated on by Robert Currie with drawings by Bianca Stone. Caron's interpretation quite has a biting...

A House for Mr. Biswas was V. S. Naipaul’s fourth novel, following three earlier efforts that were essentially all comedies of manners set in the author’s homeland of Trinidad. This predominantly comic novel, which made Naipaul a major figure in...

“The Mark on the Wall” is Virginia Woolf’s first short story and an example of her pioneering, modernist style with stream-of-consciousness and introspection. Of the story, she wrote, “I shall never forget the day I wrote 'The Mark on the Wall'—...

Daniel Magariel's One of the Boys (2017) is a depressing story. Set in New Mexico, One of the Boys tells the story of two young boys (brothers) who have to deal with the love they have for their abusive and terrible father. The book details how...

M. Butterfly is the most successful play written by playwright David Henry Hwang. It premiered on Broadway in 1988 to critical acclaim, was a finalist for the Pulitzer, and won the Tony Award for Best Play. Its original cast included John Lithgow...

Susan Glaspell’s "A Jury of Her Peers" is the short-story version of her play Trifles, which was staged a year before she published "Jury." Essentially the exact same story in two different literary forms, both tell a fictionalized but accurate...

Fires in the Mirror is a one-person play composed of monologues excerpted from interviews conducted by the author, Anne Deavere Smith. The play is part of Smith's project On the Road: A Search for the American Character, which shares a name with...

Y Tu Mamá También is a 2001 Mexican drama directed by Academy Award–winning director Alfonso Cuaron. The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) at the time of its release. Written by...

Written in 1999 by Edmund Morris, Dutch is a biography of the fortieth President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Though Morris wrote the book alongside Reagan, readers often note how it does not necessarily relate much to the actual term of...

William Butler Yeats published "The Circus Animals' Desertion" in a collection called Last Poems, which was published in 1939—the year of his death at age 70. Yeats was a legendary Irish poet who wrote profoundly about the Irish fight for...

Monkey Beach is Canadian author Eden Robinson's debut novel. It was published in 2000 by Vintage Canada and tells the story of a girl named Lisamarie Hall who possesses supernatural abilities.

The plot of Monkey Beach unfolds through the eyes of...

C.P. Cavafy is a unique poet with a distinctive writing style. His poems are simple, straight forward and direct as Cavafy does not use tools like metaphors and other poetic devices. Because of his unique way of writing he has been categorized as...

Written by the Australian playwright Louis Nowra, Cosi is a play first performed in 1992. The play is set in a 1971 mental hospital, and is the sequel to Summer of the Aliens. The play contains some non-fictional elements, but for the most part is...

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and one of the most influential thinkers of the 1900s, spent much of his life devoting himself to psychoanalysis, a technique used to treat psychopathology through dialogue. He devoted himself to studying the...

Frank Darabont's 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption is an adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. It follows the story of Andy Dufresne, a man who is serving two...

Love is a strong feeling of intense affection whose cause of sensation remains a mystery to humans. However, in The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis explores four types of love, namely, Storge-affection love, Phileo-friendship love, Eros-romantic love, and...

Richard Ford, born in 1944, is an American writer and editor. Before settling on a literary career, Ford worked a variety of jobs, briefly studied law and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. The publication of his novel The Sportswriter in...

The Hope Chest is a novel by Rukhsana Ahmad, published in November, 1996. At 307 pages, it tells the story of three women: Ruth, Rani, and Reshma, whose lives intertwine in different ways, connecting their separate journeys together.

Ahmad talks...

Beauty and Sadness is one of the first novels written about gay romance originally in Japan and was written by the known Japanese author and poet Yasunari Kawabata. It was published in 1965 by the Central Public Opinion Company (Japanese: 中央公論新社)...

Imagine, if you will, the scenario of a President of the United States of America committing an indescribable sexual indiscretion in the Oval Office of the White House, only to find that the whole of America knows about it....

The movie was never...

Paradox and Dream and Other Essays is a collection of essays published by American author and essayist John Steinbeck. The main essay focused upon is Paradox and Dream, in which Steinbeck basically describes how he looks down on the American...

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation is no doubt a long film, but it's also very important in film history. It covers two story lines: 1) the United States Civil War and 2) Reconstruction. Both follow the Stoneman family in one way or another.

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Hiroshima mon amour is a story of two past-time lovers told through a long (36 hours) conversation. It is a French drama movie written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais. It was published in 1959, originally in French which runs for...

La Jetée is a science fiction story performed in a series of mostly still photos explained through a narrator. The featurette was made by Chris Marker and was first released in 1962, distributed by Argos Films. Even though the story only lasts for...