Interstellar, Alien, and Back to the Future are all among the all-time greatest sci-fi movies that deliver everything you ...

Fantasy is one of the most popular fiction genres available, and thus has quite the range of subgenres within it. For ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

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 ...

All books provide an escape, but great books—the ones you clutch close to your chest after reading the last page—offer readers a life-affirming blend of comfort and reassurance. And lately, no genre ...

Over the years, some sci-fi movies have proven to be so disastrous that they effectively killed their entire franchise.

Out of all the horrifying icebreakers she could have gone with on that snowy first day in a class full of English majors, Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, literatures in English, chose the absolute worst one: ...