Jacqueline Harpman was born into a Jewish family in Belgium in 1929 and “ IWHNKM ” evokes the horrors of Nazism. Her slim, ...
I was 14 or 15 the first time I read The Handmaid’s Tale. I felt changed after. We all have books like that, that change your thinking and perspective in such a way that they make you different —as if ...
This piece originally ran in 2017. The plots of dystopian novels can be amazing. A group of teens in Holland, Mich., tells me about some of their favorites: In Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Love is ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Save the light reading for later. In 2017, dystopian fiction is all the rage ...
Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” With everything that’s going on in the world, it’s easy to feel as though we’re living in a dystopia ...
Apple TV has delivered some amazing TV shows, and one of its best sci-fi shows, Silo, brought dystopian elements back in a ...
"They were still, and maybe they still are, evaluating science-fiction films based on their special effects," the actress ...
Just a few days until the election, and a writer’s thoughts naturally turn to dystopias. Yes, dystopias — those stories where everything has gone to hell, hopefully in a compulsively readable way.
Books are displayed under a sign at the Harvard Book Store, Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. Readers have been flocking to classic works of dystopian fiction in the first months of Donald ...
Peter C. Herman, a professor of English literature at San Diego State University, has been teaching a course that explores the promise and perils of technology in literature for the past five years.
From drowned worlds to virtual utopias via deep space, wild ideas abound in Emily H. Wilson's picks for her favourite sci-fi ...
Dystopian novels are all about consequences, choices and gray areas. Psychologists say that plays right into the sweet spot of the developing... For Teens, Dystopian Fiction Seems Pretty Real — And ...