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This audio study guide for Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the play’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as dreams and dreams deferred, fatherhood, and Black masculinity....

Told through the frame of a cross-country motorcycle journey, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores its characters' search for spiritual meaning and peace in a technological, automated age....

This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and in-depth exploration of the book’s symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history....

Part memoir, part call to action for the reform of the American criminal justice system, Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy is a work of nonfiction by the activist lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative....

This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the importance of proverbs and fathers and sons....

This audio study guide for Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reclaiming one's true nature and cycles of life and mind....

This audio study guide for Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the human beast and survival of the fittest....

This audio study guide for The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This guide for The Overstory by Richard Powers includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 12 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis....

This audio study guide for A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as perseverance, identity and displacement, and the importance of family....

This audio study guide for A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the nature of God, love, and loss....

This audio study guide for It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such American totalitarianism and threats to liberal democracy....

This audio study guide for When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as credibility, the complexity of truth, and uncertainty....

Born a Crime is a comedic autobiography chronicling Trevor Noah’s childhood growing up in South Africa. Using a nonlinear structure, the memoir recounts Noah’s youth and young adulthood in the final years of apartheid....

This audio study guide for White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as white resistance to race and complicity in a systemic system....

This audio study guide for Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the invisibility of power....

This audio study guide for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as lacking meaning in one’s life, faith, and human decency....

This audio study guide for A Separate Peace by John Knowles includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as competition, rivalry, and the loss of innocence....