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 ...

Dystopian fiction is far from the easiest subgenre to escape into, considering the inherent darkness and ominous warnings of what our future could become. But they're also undeniably enthralling, ...

Four weeks ago, while sitting in my office (remember those?), I pitched an idea for a book review: it was about how we didn’t need more dystopian fiction. How the new dystopian fiction was just a ...

Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet ...

Plus, Netflix's One Piece finds even more new faces for season 2. Drew Goddard (The Martian, The Cabin in the Woods) will write and direct the new movie, with series co-creator Lana Wachowski ...

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is a brutal takedown of 1980s Conservative politics. It's also a perfect Christmas movie.

The big adult fiction title of this past fall was Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. The sequel to the author’s 1985 bestseller The Handmaid’s Tale was unveiled with a 500,000-copy first printing. At ...

If there’s a person you want to talk to in the midst of a pandemic, it’s probably a writer of speculative fiction — someone whose imagination is as wild and gnarly as the wild and gnarly times. Marlon ...

New Yorker writer Jill Lepore added herself to the list of media critics who oppose Tesla CEO Elon Musk buying Twitter. On Monday, Lepore appeared as a guest on NPR’s "Consider This" podcast where the ...

The Fix, a science-fiction film directed by Kelsey Egan starring Grace Van Dien, will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on ...

After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, sales of famous dystopian novels ” are now regularly presented in real world media — blatant misinformation to advance a political agenda.

A dystopian future is best defined as one that’s bad for most people, or one with a great deal of general suffering, and so dystopian movies, by extension, tend to explore such worlds, usually at some ...