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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...

Peter Abelard was a French philosopher, poet, composer, and logician of the twelfth century. He was also known as a prominent theologian of the Middle Ages. He was born during 1079 and died during 1142. From a philosophical standpoint, he is...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is a well-regarded poet born during 1952 in Chapelton, a small town within Clarendon, Jamaica. After moving to London during 1963, he embarked on a compelling journey of educational achievements, political activism, and...

Inspired by The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, Cabaret is a musical/drama film directed by Bob Fosse released in 1972. It was an extremely successful film, winning 8 Oscars and earning $48.2 million worldwide.

The movie is set in 1931...

"Berlin Stories" is a collection of short stories written by Christopher Isherwood, first published in 1935. The stories are set in Berlin during the early 1930s, a period of great social and political upheaval in Germany. Isherwood, an English...

George Meredith was an English poet and novelist in the Victorian Era. He originally read law and was on the path to be a lawyer but chose instead to abandon that career and pursue poetry and journalism. He began a literary magazine called the...

Excitement sizzled like electricity through the air when Tim Burton was announced as the director who would bring Batman back to the screen with a new big screen update promising to take the Caped Crusader back from the campy wilderness he’d been...

The Dark Knight Rises is the finale to the famed Batman trilogy directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan, and was released on July 2012 and distributed by Warner Bros.

In this movie, Christian Bale reprises his role as the infamous playboy...

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1927-2008) worked closely with her husband Robert A. Fernea for years as an ethnologist of African and Middle Eastern cultures. She has earned a reputation as a brilliant filmmaker and author. As a woman, her work in the...

Originally published in Harper’s Bazaar in July 1926, the first of what would become a seemingly endless series of republications in anthologies and textbooks commenced the very next year when D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” appeared in...

Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera almost certainly qualifies as a candidate for the title of the least-read novel whose story is best-known. Thanks to a never-ending supply of adaptations into other media, it would be almost impossible to...

The Talented Mr. Ripley, released in 1999, is a unique and innovative psychological thriller and drama. The film was directed and written by Anthony Minghella, a screenwriter, playwright and director. Previous to Ripley, Minghella directed ...

Homegoing is the first novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi. Following the descendants of an Asante woman named Maame, the novel paints a complex picture of the intertwined histories of Ghana and the United States from the 1700's to present...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) combines the personal and professional experiences of Ken Kesey and reflects the culture in which it was written, yet it stands strong on its own merits. Kesey developed the novel while a graduate student in...

Green Grass, Running Water is Thomas King's second novel. King began writing it in 1989 during a one-month writer's residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. The novel was published in 1993 and received positive critical reception. It was...

Why Buddhism Is True or Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a non-fiction book published in 2017 by the American author Robert Wright.

Robert Wright wrote extensively about religion and in this book...

An author of American origin, Maggie Nelson was born in 1973. She authored the work, “The Argonauts” and has currently bagged several awards, notably the 2016 Macarthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” and a 2012 Creative Capital Leadership Fellowship....