Literary

This is a contributor issue of Cometbus. It's got a TON of stuff, including some gritty, experimental poems, an…

Animal Farm and 1984 author George Orwell served with the Imperial Police in Burma during his early adulthood, and his…

In a boarding school of uniformity, a pair of struggling teachers set their sights on quelling bullying and overcoming…

Expounding upon the characters and world by Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades dives into the poker world, following a…

A gorgeous, graphic biography of renowned photographer Graciela Iturbide woven together by a talented writer and…

Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren’t really sure what they mean?…

A novel about family, love, depression, anxiety, having faith in each other, and helping each other through the most…

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious, was…

“What is Structuralism? How is it possible? And once the structures of Structuralism have been discovered, how is…

Howard Zinn changed the way that history is written: his classic A People's History of the United States, published in…

Noam Chomsky has written over 30 books, is one of the most-quoted authors on Earth, and the New York Times calls him…

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time,…

24 postcards with timeless quotes infiltrated by the modern language which can be inferred within them. Proven to be…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating…

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society…

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from…

Is any poem more infamous, or long, or definitive of its era than this epic yawp by Allen Ginsburg? Published in 1956 at…

If you liked Black Mirror, check out this collection of stories set in a near-future world of social media implants,…

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the…

George "Tubby" Bowling--middle-aged, insurance salesman, father, husband, and common man--is, shockingly, dissatisfied…

Ray Bancroft, an Alaskan fisherman, has raised his 11 year old granddaughter since birth, and to him, family is…

Imagine knowing what the brain craves and what keeps readers transfixed. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on…

How to Grow Up is absolutely the story of Michelle Tea's life, of her exes, her working class roots and her youthful…

Jessica Abel's new comics journalism book, On the Wire, is the nonfiction graphic novel format story of the rise of the…

During the grey days of winter, or those darker days in your life, the best remedy is often just curling up with a good…

Next door to the chain stores and mini malls are the cheap restaurants with chipped paint and handwritten signs which…

Funny, sad, touching, realistic, strange—you'll find here a wide range of short stories about our relationships with…