Narratives used to justify war have achieved a flimsiness so outrageous they would strain credulity in novels. Inspired by ...

The best summer companion is a good book. This year has already given us some truly brilliant ones making it really hard to whittle down the best. But no matter what your tastes a ...

We never grow tired of loving and needing the fiction we find in books and movies. As children, we beg for one more book before we give over to sleep or ask to hear the favorite, over and over again.

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

When Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings began pitching literary agents 15 years ago, they kept their interest in fan fiction a secret. Known by their combined pen name, Christina Lauren, the ...

You don't often get true blends of mythology with sci-fi, but when you do, it's a fantastic combo ...

Brown, cannibalism felt like the perfect expression of female rage — a visceral form of protest against the pressure women face to repress their appetites and not be gross or messy or greedy or needy.

The first six months of 2026 have seen bright threads in sci- fi series including Fallout and Paradise. But for pure gold, ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...

Fan fiction is essentially original writing about existing fictional characters or, sometimes, real people like celebrities. The original medium fan fiction is based on can vary from books, movies, ...

In a haunting scene from Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling first novel, The Kite Runner, a young Amir watches helplessly as his best friend Hassan gets assaulted. As Amir stands paralyzed on the sidelines ...