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Three Sisters is a play written by Anton Chekhov in 1900. It follows the lives of the Prozorov sisters as their fortune is in decline and they must seek out a happy life against the odds. The play traces various human disappointments, specifically...

Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet whose work has risen in prominence since some of her verse was featured in the singer Beyoncé's film Lemonade, released in 2016. Her debut collection—entitled teaching my mother how to give birth—was well...

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book written by Frederick Brooks about Software project management. It was published by Addison-Wesley in 1975 and was re-published in 1982 and 1995. It is the first book in a planned...

The Valley of Amazement is a novel of two halves: the first, written from the point of view of Violet, the abandoned daughter of a courtesan house owner mother who abruptly leaves Shanghai to fly to San Francisco where she is able at last to meet...

Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's original novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with some elements of the novel that followed, Through the Looking Glass, serving as additional inspiration. In Alice's...

Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) takes place in 1931 and follows three girls who live in Australia near the so-called rabbit-proof fence. The town is called Jigalong and the girls are half-Aboriginal; they initially follow a traditional...

Ross Gay is a prolific young writer that gained prominence in the poetic circles of America. He published several books and recently started teaching at the University of Indiana. He is further known for his outspoken opinions on social...

Malone Dies was first published in French in 1951 under the title Malone Meurt. Samuel Beckett the author of the novel native to Ireland, later translated the book into English so that it could reach a wider audience. Malone Dies is the second of...

Don't Let Me Be Lonely is a multi-media book of poetry and photography by Claudia Rankine. It was originally published in September 2004. Rankine is a contemporary poet who is known for her idiosyncratic, politically-charged, and multimedia...

Bad Feminist is a collection of essays by Roxane Gay. It was published in 2014 by Harper Perennial in English. The book confronts feminist ideologies, what a good feminist is and what a person can and can’t do, even though they love doing it....

I Love Dick is a book written by the American author named Chris Kraus. The book was published in 1997 by Semiotext(e) and republished in 2006. The book is written from the writer’s perspective (Chris Kraus), as her marriage falls apart when she...

Get Out is a satirical horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele. Prior to making Get Out, Peele was best known as a comedian, and half of the sketch duo Key & Peele, beloved for entertaining and sharp satirical sketches on Comedy...

Blaine Harden is a reporter with a particular interest in North Korea and its politics. In 2008 he met a young man named Sin In Geun. The young man had defected from North Korea, no mean feat considering it is one of the most repressive and brutal...

Evicted tells the story of eight poorer families who are struggling to pay rent during the 2008 financial crisis (which over 3 million people lose their homes and many lose their retirement savings). It deals with how people survive in the face of...

In his short novella Signs Preceding the End of the World (originally published in Spanish but later published in English), which The Guardian said "From its opening pages... this marvelously rich, slim novel is working on many levels," author...

Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat is best known as a fiction novelist and short story writer, but her memoir, written in 2007, was inspired by the head-on collision of both tragedy and joy in her life, occurring on the same day. Danticat...

Robin DiAngelo's book White Fragility, subtitled 'Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism', was met with very polarizing reactions when it was published in 2018. In her book, DiAngelo, an academic, unveils the reasons why white...

Published in 2008, The Sky Inside is a science fiction novel by American author Clare B. Dunkle. The book is the first in the two part The Sky Inside series, and was received with moderate reviews upon release. The book follows the story of main...

First written in 1948, "Seventeen Syllables" was published in an anthology of Hisaye Yamamoto's most famous works in 1988. As a collection, it includes stories that span almost forty years of writing and as well as her seminal work, includes other...

Spirited Away is a Japanese fantasy animation film released in 2001. Written and directed by Hayao Miyazki, it was originally a sort of side project that Miyazki worked on whilst his personal projects were busy being rejected by all of the studios...

"Recitatif" is Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison’s only short story. It was published in 1983 in Amiri and Amina Baraka’s Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women. Though race is a central component of the story about two...

The Last King of Scotland, directed by Kevin Macdonald, written by Peter Morgan (The Crown, Frost/Nixon) and Jeremy Brock based on the novel by Giles Foden was produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwoods and Charles steel. The 2006 film tells the...

The Door In The Wall is a classic children's novel written by Marguerite de Angeli in 1949. The story takes place in England in the Middle Ages, during the time of the Black Plague.

The book tells the story of a 10-year-old boy named Robin who is...

Green Book is a 2018 American comedy-drama directed and co-written by Peter Farrelly. It is an American story about the Italian-American driver/bouncer for a Jamaican-American black pianist named Don Shirley, who toured the Deep South in 1962. The...