There is an almost exact parallel to this aspect of the picaresque novel in contemporary fiction: the recurring story of the young man who begins in poor circumstances and climbs vertically through ...

Science fiction deserves scientific analysis. While conventional qualitative literary analysis has been extended to science fiction in a progressively more refined manner, quantitative analysis of the ...

This post was updated on August 23, 2021. It’s better to read than not read — that much is true — but for book worms, the type of fiction you choose to read can provide different social cognition ...

“Fiction gives us empathy; it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes,” according to Neil Gaiman, an unusually prolific, imaginative and ...

In Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 crowd-pleaser, two gay couples strike a bargain that turns both Faustian and farcical. The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, ...