Sarah’s Key is a young adult historical fiction novel about the holocaust written by Tatiana de Rosnay. Its original language is French, and it was released under the title “Elle s’appelait Sarah” which can be directly translated to “She was...

Aldo Leopold was an American author, ecologist, scientist and philosopher - areas of expertise that at first glance seem oppositional, to say the least. His main passion was environmentalism; A Sand County Almanac is his best-known work and has...

Turtles All the Way Down is entrepreneur and author John Green's 2017 follow-up to his 2012 smash-hit The Fault in Our Stars. In the book, we follow a high school student named Aza Holmes. She is wicked smart but struggles with mental health—...

Zoe Wicomb, an author with both South African and Scottish ancestry, lives and works in Scotland, something that she shares with the protagonist of this novel, Marcia Murray. Murray is a professor in Glasgow who returns to her homeland of South...

Thérèse Desqueyroux is a novel written by the famous French author François Mauriac. The book was first published in 1927, and later became included in the Grand Prix of the best novels of the half-century in 1950. Mauriac died at the age of 84 in...

Alex Kotlowitz's biography, There Are No Children Here, was the recipient of The Christopher Award, and the Helen Bernstein Award, and tells the story of a childhood spent in a housing project in Chicago, at the Henry Horner Homes. Like many kids...

Thank you for Arguing is Jay Heinrichs' 2017 book covering how to be persuasive in argument, writing, and in every day life. In the book, he uses examples ranging from people like Bart Simpson and former British prime minister Winston Churchill....

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion is a memoir and biography written by Gregory Boyle. The book was published in 2010 and received many positive reviews. He is a Catholic priest and he writes about events that happened during...

The Winslow Boy is a play by Terence Rattigan that is based on the real-life infamous incident involving George Archer-Shee in the early part of the Twentieth century. Archer-Shee was a young Royal Naval cadet who was accused of stealing a five...

Claude Steele was born and raised in Chicago. His mother, a social worker, and his father, a truck driver, raised him to value hard work, and education. As he grew older, his interest was piqued by the fledgling civil rights movement. He became an...

Jaki Green's poetry often deals with youth and new things, and how they affect the people and things around them. One of her most well know poems, "Who Will Be the Messenger of This Land", asks the reader that very question - in this newly found...

Omkara is a 2006 Indian crime drama directed by Vishal Bhardwaj based on William Shakespeare's Othello. The screenplay was written by Abhishek Chaubey, Robin Bhatt, and Bhardwaj and was produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak. The film made an estimated...

Sharon Creech is an acclaimed children's author who always seems to know how to express what is going on in the heart of a teenage girl. In The Wanderer, a Newberry Honor Book, she allows her thirteen year old protagonist, Sophie, to narrate....

Zero Hour is Ray Bradbury's 1947 - included in Bradbury's collection of short stories entitled The Illustrated Man, released in 1951 - short story following Mrs. Morris and her daughter, Mink. Mrs. Morris is incredibly amused by how excited Mink...

Along with Elia Kazan's East of Eden, which was released six months earlier, Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause is best known for forging James Dean's legacy as a screen icon. Dean, Ray, writer Irving Shulman, and a cast of committed young stars...

The Philadelphia Story remains one of the best-loved romantic comedies—more specifically, a “comedy of remarriage”—of the 20th century, and features a stunning cast of Hollywood heavyweights delivering some of the most crystalline dialogue in...

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir, melodrama, and dark comedy directed by visionary filmmaker Billy Wilder, who also co-wrote the screenplay with one of his longtime collaborators, Charles Brackett. The duo initially conceived the film as a...

Tuck Everlasting is a classic tale about a family that does not age and is immune to injury and illness, and one girl who chooses to fiercely protect their secret.

Natalie Babbitt's inspiration for writing this book came from an experience with...

It Happened One Night is a pre-Code romantic comedy beloved for its charm, its picaresque style, and the glowing performances of its two stars, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. It is considered to be one of the first "screwball comedies," a...

In 1928, MacLeish produced what many consider to be the defining manifesto for modernist poetry, “Ars Poetica,” with the famous concluding line insisting that

“A poem should not mean / But be.”

One of the conventions of modernism was, perhaps...