Fiction - Diverse Reads

Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridge ...

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overw...

William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372...

Before they were icons they were friendsThe world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius ...

The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.  Revered by the likes of Octavio ...

Dominique Morisseau, a rising star of the playwriting world and recipient of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American Hist...

Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of ...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and relat...

The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twen...

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher. Product ...

The Nobel Prize winner's classic collection of love poems Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's ...

2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineTurns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most hi...

A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking w...

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple,...

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English be...

The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larra n's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael Garc a Be...

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one an...

Jean Lorrain, later famous as the author of such Decadent masterpieces as Nightmares of an Ether Drinker and Errant Vice, began his literary career...

Patrick Davidson Roberts presents a world of illusion in The Trick, a book of masterful deception and creation. Starting from the mysterious act of...

With a sharp focus on duality, The Dissection of a Tiger is a surreal journey not only into the cage of the beast, but down its throat, sometimes e...

Blue Like Apples is a narrative collection of poems that tells a story of coming-out, through love for another woman. It is a coming of age in mid-...