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

Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

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 ...

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 ...

Brown, cannibalism felt like the perfect expression of female rage — a visceral form of protest against the pressure women ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reading fiction is more than an escape from reality. Psychology says by allowing you to experience different perspectives, stories can improve empathy, challenge assumptions and help understand people ...

Yet, researchers have been curious about whether discerning the inner worlds of made-up characters translates to an enhanced capacity to comprehend people in real life. Previous work revealed that ...

The Women’s prize for fiction has been awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English since 1996. In its 30th year, it is now one of the most influential literary ...

Sci-fi films have produced plenty of iconic vehicles, from spaceships to submarines. Here are the coolest motorcycles that we ...