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A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 movie based on the original groundbreaking play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry - groundbreaking, because it was the first production focusing on an African American family seen through their own eyes and not...

One Shot at Forever (A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season) was written by Chris Ballard, a Sports Illustrated writer. This novel was published during 2012 by Hachette Books and is a true story. It tells the story of an...

Saboteur was written by Chinese author Ha Jin. It was originally published during 2000 and was published again during 2007 by Pearson. This short story details the unfolding of unfortunate events involving a man named Mr. Chiu and his wife. Mr....

David Cronenberg’s creepy, disturbing and ultimately overindulgent 1983 hybrid of science fiction and horror is one of the most penetrating cinematic studies of the power of television to hypnotize the mind of the viewer and force through...

The Days of Abandonment was written by bestselling author Elena Ferrante. It was first published during 2002 and was later published during 2005 by Europa Editions. This fictional novel tells the story of a woman left to care for two young...

George Whitefield was an English evangelist who belonged to the Church of England during the eighteenth century. He was born during 1714 in England and died during 1770 in Massachusetts. His religious career consisted of evangelical/itinerant...

William Cowper was a popular English evangelist and poet of the eighteenth century. He was born during 1731 in Hertfordshire and was the first surviving child of his parents. His death occurred during 1800. During his active literary years, he is...

Louise Gluck is considered a top contemporary poet within the United States. She was born during 1943 in New York City. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn, was published during 1968. The world got its first taste of her mysterious and obscure...

The Slave was a novel written by Polish author Isaac Bashevis Singer and was published in 1962. Singer was born in 1902 and died in 1991. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature sixteen years after the novel was published.

The Slave talks about a...

The people of England have taken a rough view toward the manners, taste and sophistication of Americans since they themselves became the first colonists. Almost two full decades before witches started suddenly popping up with shocking frequency...

Judith is an Old English poem written by an anonymous author. This is possibly the same author who wrote the epic poem Beowulf as it appears in the same manuscript as this poem. This poem is based on the Book of Judith, which is present within...

The Neon Bible, authored by John Kennedy Toole, was originally published during 1989 and was later published during 1994 by Grove Press. This book is centered on David, a rather dramatic and peculiar boy living in a small town within the South...

The Battle of Maldon refers to an alliterative poem glorifying an actual historical engagement which shares its name. The actual battle of Maldon occurred in 991 and pitted valorous Anglo-Saxon warriors against the Danish Vikings. The poem is...

Say What You Will is a contemporary young adult novel by Cammie McGovern, published on June 3, 2014. McGovern is an American author born in Illinois. This novel is her first young adult novel. The novel is centered around two main characters: Amy...

The Silence of the Lambs became the third novel published by Thomas Harris. His freshman effort about a mad bomber using a blimp to terrorize America at its very cultural soul—the Super Bowl—appeared to acclaim a dozen years earlier. Black Sunday...

British author Evelyn Waugh is far better known for his stories about classically British people in classically British settings like Brideshead Revisited. In fact, were it not for Brideshead Revisited, Waugh would likely never have written The...

The Blind Assassin is a novel published on September 3, 2000, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood was born in Ottawa and was raised there. The setting of the story is in Canada, where the story centers on three main characters: Iris, Laura,...

In the pantheon of science fiction writers, three names continue to arise in any argument over who has been the most influential: Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein. (Although, certainly, Bradbury, Verne, and H. G. Wells have their hardcore supporters...

The Heart of a Woman (1981) by Maya Angelou is the fourth book in her series of seven autobiographies. The Heart of a Woman tells the tale of Angelou as she leaves the world of show biz behind and moves to New York to become a writer and join the...

Guillaume de Machaut wrote The Fountain of Love (La Fonteinne Amoureuse), which was published during 1993 by Routledge. Machaut was a notable French poet and musician of the fourteenth century. "The Fountain of Love" is a popular love vision poem...

Before there was Al Pacino and the profanity-laden iconic gangster movie "Scarface", there was the 1932 version, directed by Howard Hawks, a movie that, although constrained far more than its modern counterpart by rules that prevented the showing...

Red Sorghum, written by Mo Yan, tells the story of the Chinese battling Japanese intruders as well as each other during the 1930s. Furthermore, it details the tragedy of the Chinese defending and preserving their culture through a series of...

Jez Butterworth wrote Jerusalem, a melancholic yet humorous play published during 2009 by Nick Hern Books. This play's setting and story plot are rooted in an English country community involving gangs and gypsies, among other things. Specifically,...

I Shall Not Hate (A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity) was written by Izzeldin Abuelaish, which is a riveting yet heart-breaking account of his life. It was first published during 2010 and was later published during 2011...