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Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker whose work traverses the borders of Pakistan, her country of origin, and her adopted countries of India and the UK. "Tissue,” originally published in Dharker's 2006 collection The terrorist at my...

“Praise Song for my Mother” was published in Grace Nichols’ first poetry collection I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983). The anthology was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1983 and was adapted into a Channel 4 film and BBC radio play. The...

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker born in Pakistan whose work often touches on issues of cultural displacement and the search for the feeling of home. Her poem "Blessing," first published in the 1994 collection Postcards from god, ...

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a composition by American poet Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963). Originally published in 1923 by the Yale Review, the poem was included in Frost's collection called New Hampshire, also published that year.

Frost was awarded...

Published by Harper Collins in Canada and Tin House in the USA, What Storm, What Thunder is a haunting and revelatory portrait of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The publisher Tin House describes it as “a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of...

"Living Space," first published in 1997, is a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker whose work traverses the borders of Pakistan, her country of origin, and her adopted countries of India and the UK. Several themes in...

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a prominent figure in 16th-century Britain, and was known for his consistent efforts in creating an academic setting dedicated to the rigorous and meticulous pursuit of gathering knowledge. In his lifetime, he was...

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore is an early modern English tragedy written in the early 1620s by John Ford. It was first published in 1633 and in its original published form was entitled 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Whoore. It was first performed between 1629...

Girl, Woman, Other is Bernardine Evaristo's eighth novel, for which she was awarded the 2019 Booker Prize along with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments. Evaristo has also written and published poetry, essays, and literary criticism. Currently the...

Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys is a 2018 middle-grade novel about Jerome Rogers, a twelve-year-old Black boy in Chicago who is shot dead by a white police officer. The novel takes a mystical turn when Jerome becomes a ghost and learns about his...

The Buddha of Suburbia is the debut novel by Pakistani-British writer Hanif Kureishi. First published in 1990, the story follows Karim, a mixed-race teenager living in South London. The story takes place in the 1970s, a time of radical change in...

Time is a Mother is a collection of poems by Vietnamese-American novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, first published in 2022. Vuong's work often examines different threads of the poet's experiences growing up—he has referred to himself as “a queer...

Chimerica, a play by Lucy Kirkwood that premiered in 2013, explores the relationship between China and America following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Chimerica is a portmanteau of the words "China" and "America" that sounds similar to the...

The Lonely Londoners is a novel by Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon, first published in 1956. It depicts the lives of various West Indian immigrants, showing their efforts to build a life in England.

The novel focuses on a Trinidadian man named...

"The Man-Moth" was first published in 1946, in Elizabeth Bishop's collection North and South. However, it was originally written roughly a decade prior, during the 1930s. This work is regarded as one of Bishop's stranger, more surreal poems. It...

Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man, first published in 2022, is a speculative fiction novel about each member of a majority-white society spontaneously developing brown skin.

Set in an unnamed English-speaking country that has similarities to...

The Old Man and the Sea was published 1952 after the bleakest ten years in Hemingway's literary career. His last major work, Across the River and into the Trees, was condemned as unintentional self-parody, and people began to think that Hemingway...

Nikki Erlick is an American author based in Los Angeles, CA. The Measure, Erlick's debut novel and her first attempt at a full-length manuscript, was published in June 2022 and was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Erlick has explained that...

"A Small Needful Fact" is one of Ross Gay's most well-known poems. It was originally published by the poetry organization Split This Rock in 2015, and was shared widely across social media. Responding to the murder of Eric Garner at the hands of...

Originally a short story, "Wool" takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity lives in an underground silo. After receiving positive feedback on his work, author Hugh Howey expanded the story into a novel-length text, which he...

Killers of the Flower Moon, published in 2017, is a nonfiction book by journalist David Grann. It follows the investigation of several high-profile murders within the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in Oklahoma.

The book begins in 1920, with...

"The Fish" is one of Elizabeth Bishop's most celebrated and widely anthologized works. First published in 1946 in the collection North & South, the poem describes the experience of a speaker who catches a fish and then closely observes its...

Oodgeroo Noonuccal is an Aboriginal Australian writer and political activist whose work centers the experience of indigenous people in Australia. "We Are Going," a poem originally published in her 1964 collection of the same name, examines the...

Dickens published his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, in his own literary journal called All the Year Round in weekly installments from April to November of 1859. He got the germ of the idea for the novel from a play by Wilkie Collins called...