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Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States (there have been three editions: the first published in 1986, a second edition published in 1994, and a third published in 2015) introduces readers to the theory of racial...

Published in 1994, Stones from the River is a novel that follows the story of main character Trudi Montag, who has to live life as a dwarf. Daughter to a mentally-challenged mother, Trudi is despised because of her appearance by her mother until...

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story is written by Luis Alberto Urrea in 2004. Urrea was born in Tijuana, but lives in Chicago now. The story follows 26 Mexicans who wanted to cross the border to the United States. They ended up in a place called the...

Published is 1767 and written by proclaimed French writer Voltaire, L'Ingénu is a satirical novella. Following the story of a character named "Child of Nature" the book focuses on themes of lost ancestry and religion. A Huron Native American,...

Written by author and journalist Dave Cullen, Columbine (originally published in 2009), examines the mass shooting at Columbine High School and the shooting's perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Primarily, the book covers the killers...

James L. Swanson and his subject, Abraham Lincoln, share the same birthday, although the author claims that this fact has nothing to do with his lifelong fascination with one of our most revered and respected presidents. Hailing from a long line...

The most famous and debatably best play the famous actor Bruce Norris has ever written was Clybourne Park. The retort to the play A Raisin in the Sun won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2012 Tony Award for Best Play and 2012 Theatre World...

The Canadian novelist Jen Sookfong Lee born and raised in the Eastside of Vancouver which is a marginalized area. She describes this place in the book The Conjoined, published in 2016. She has published many novels such as The End of East, The...

Clifford's Blues is a 1999 historical fiction novel by John Alfred Williams. Williams is considered one of the "founding members of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s." Like Williams' other novels, Clifford's Blues is told through the...

“For the Union Dead” is the titular poem of Robert Lowell’s sixth book of poetry. This poem was commissioned by the Boston Arts Festival in 1960 and ended up in some paperback editions of Life Studies. It builds a shaky bridge between the present...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a history book written by Jack Weatherford, originally published in 2004. At 352 pages, it gives an alternate perspective to the Mongol dynasty and their leader, Genghis Khan. It follows Khan’s...

This 2013 film by Bong Joon-ho is based on the Le Transperceneige, a French graphic novel by Jean-Marc Rochette. Snowpiercer was Bong Joon-ho's first English film, after directing numerous critically-acclaimed Korean films. The film stars Chris...

Richard Church, born in 1893, was a novelist, poet, and writer of several autobiographies. Born in southeast of London, Church was quite fond of country-style living, and this is shown in many of his poems. Church also contributed to several...

Shutter Island is a thriller written in 2003 by Dennis Lehane. Set in the summer of 1954, with memories of World War Two still fresh, the novel follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels as he travels to Shutter Island, the location of Ashecliffe Hospital...

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic is journalist and author Sam Quinones' 2015 non-fiction book that explores why there is an opiate epidemic in America. Quinones' traces it back to enterprising sugar farmers who developed a...

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the debut novel of author Becky Albertalli, was published in 2015. The novel follows the story of Simon Spier, who is a high school boy insecure about his gayness. Throughout this coming-of-age novel, Simon must...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace was written by Jeff Hobbs. It was publish in September 2014 by Scribner. Jeff Hobbs comes from Pennsylvania. He has a degree from Yale University in English Language and Literature. He graduated from Yale...

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains was written by English author and essayist Nicholas Carr. Published in 2010, the book seems to expand upon the original ideas presented by Carr in his essay entitled, "Is Google Making Us...

Famed children’s author Linda Sue Park published A Long Walk to Water in 2010. Based on the true story of Salva Dut, a Sudanese “Lost Boy,” it interweaves the tales of Dut with those of a fictional young girl named Nya. Dut’s story takes place in...

The Sphinx Without a Secret and Other Stories is a collection of stories written by Oscar Wilde. The stories are all comical and mysterious. The single tales were originally published in 1887 by a magazine called “The Court and Society Review” and...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the biography of naturalist Charles Darwin, written by Darwin himself from late May 1876 to early August of the same year. Over the course of the book, Darwin reminisces over his career from the landmark On...

Kim Scott is not just one of Australia's pre-eminent authors; he is also one of the best known indigenous authors, a descendant of the Noongar Aborigines of Western Australia. The name "Noongar" does not refer to a specific group of aboriginal...

Pather Panchali was inspired by filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s desire to create more realistic films with actual locations and natural actors about real Indian issues. While traveling in London, Ray saw Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by...

The Shadow of the Wind is a Spanish language book that was published in 2001 that became a worldwide hit after its translation into English by Lucia Graves in 2004. Graves is one of the most renowned translators of Spanish into English in the...