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The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy co-written by playwrights Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. It was originally performed in May of 1622 and first published in 1652 by bookseller Humphrey Moseley.

Critics have long speculated as to which...

The Painter of Signs (1976) is a novel by celebrated Indian author R. K. Narayan. It describes a tumultuous romance between a sign painter and a political activist.

The novel tells the story of a man named Raman, a perfectionist sign painter. He...

“Nikki-Rosa” is a free-verse poem first published in Nikki Giovanni's 1968 collection Black Judgement. The poem, which is autobiographical in nature, discusses Giovanni's childhood near Cincinnati, Ohio. The poem addresses the public perception of...

When Charles Dickens sat down to write what would eventually become the novel David Copperfield, he first intended to write an autobiography, a recollection of his tumultuous, eventful life. Many of his memories, however, were too painful for him...

Ian Reid's Foe was published in 2018 by Gallery/Scout Press. Foe is set in the near future and follows Junior and Henrietta, who live together on a cramped, but isolated and remote farm. One day, a strange man named Terrance comes to the couple's...

Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake (2022) tells the story of two young men named Byron and Benny, who are grieving the unexpected death of their mother. When the two travel to their mother to sort out her funeral and estate, they are confronted with...

Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party was published in the United Kingdom in 1969. As with many of Christie's novels, Hallowe'en Party features Hercule Poirot, who is tasked with investigating the murder of two young women at a Halloween party. At...

A Haunting in Venice (2023) was originally published as Hallowe'en Party in 1969 by acclaimed British mystery author Agatha Christie. The name change was made for marketing purposes: a film called A Haunting in Venice was released in 2023, and...

The Changeling is a contemporary dark fantasy novel written by American author Victor LaValle. It was published on 13th June 2017 by Spiegel & Grau. The story combines elements of folklore, horror, and contemporary themes to create a...

Published in June 2021, The Other Black Girl is the debut novel by American writer Zakiya Dalila Harris. The novel is a contemporary fiction that delves into themes of race, workplace dynamics, and identity.

The story follows an editorial...

Percy Bysse Shelley wrote "Ode to the West Wind" in a wooded area near Florence, Italy in one sitting on October 25, 1819. The poem was first published in 1820 in the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems....

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, the book tells the story of a group of young women attending Appleyard College, an Australian boarding school in Macedon, Victoria. It details their mysterious...

Published in two parts in 1901 and 1902, Jerusalem is a multigenerational saga that tells the story of families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a Swedish church group who emigrated to a utopian Christian commune in Jerusalem, Israel. Inspired by a real...

Katherine Marsh is a 48-year-old author of children's books, which include Nowhere Boy (2018), The Door by the Staircase (2016), Jeep, Who Defied the Staircase (2012), The Twilight Prisoner (2009), The Night Tourist (2007), and The Lost Year...

Ken Cadow was born in Norwich and works as a school principal in Vermont. Cadow is a first-time novelist, and his debut novel is Gather, a young adult novel. Gather is about Ian, a young adult living in his rural home in Vermont. Ian is trying to...

Hanna Pylväinen is an educator and novelist based in the United States of America. Some of Pylväinen's works include We Sinners (2012), Unbelieving: A Memoir (2007), and Easter Among Strangers (2012). Pylväinen’s latest novel is

The End of...

Paul Harding is a 56-year-old American musician and author. Harding is best known for his first appearance novel, Tinkers (2009), which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Price and Pulitzer Prize Award (2010) in literary fiction. Paul Harding’s latest...

Aaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Maryland. After graduating from the University of London with a degree in African studies, Bilal published several fiction and non-fiction stories. Most of Bilal's stories connect Afro-Diasporic people and...

Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American exploratory fiction author. Adjei-Brenyah came to the literature limelight in 2018 when he wrote a short story collection, Friday Black. Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) is Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel. The National...

John Lee Clark is an American 45 years of age, a crusader, deafblind bard, and writer from Minnesota, United States of America. Clark is a unique poet and writer because he was born into a deaf family that used sign language to communicate. In his...

“Daybreak in Alabama” is a poem by Langston Hughes about a composer who fantasizes about creating music that will embody the beauty of life in Alabama and thereby lead to healing and a better world. The poem became popular during the sixties due...

Ellen Bass is an American poet, writer, and teacher whose work centers on love, sex, food, relationships, conflict, and healing. In her poem "Basket of Figs," published in the 2002 collection Mules of Love, the speaker invites her lover to lay...

When it was published, Adam Rapp's 33 Snowfish (2003) was lauded by experts and critics as an important, challenging novel that could impact the worldview of its teenage readers because of its complex and mature themes. In the 2020s, those mature...

Someday (2018) is the third and final novel in author David Levithan's Every Day series. Once again, Levithan's novel delves into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and Reverend Poole. For much of his life, A has thought he was one of a kind. At...