Literary Science Fiction Books to Expand Your View of the Future
These literary science fiction books with stunning prose and complex characters will give you a new perspective on what it means to be human.
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These literary science fiction books with stunning prose and complex characters will give you a new perspective on what it means to be human.
In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman...
For decades, the novelist has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction, writing about mysterious individuals trapped in byzantine systems. In “The Rhyl Poster,” that approach may h...
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Jonathan Buckley's books embody the idea of writing as self-effacing transmission; their attentiveness to minor characters may be what the novel was built to do, but today it can f...
One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In her new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.
Beijing long promoted novels about working-class travails. What happens when authors point fingers at the state?
Yiyun Li’s new historical novel chronicles the intertwined lives of two musicians. It examines the nature of ambition and the temptation to cross the line demarcating art and comme...
Theo, a self-described “unmarried, childless, thirty-seven-year-old ex-bookstore clerk,” finds himself unmoored and shaken when his best friend, the successful writer Charles, dies...
The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.”
By Aman Basha Ruminations on three films and their respective relationships with popular works of literature. It seems the second week of August 2026 would forever exist in my memo...
In the opening author’s note, Guralnick quotes novelist Lee Smith: “I have always felt that I can tell the truth better in fiction than nonfiction.” This hints that his 11 stories...
Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most im...
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Literature is great. World literature is greater. Great world literature is greatest of all. But even great world literature can be improved by taking a birder’s perspective. “For...
Blunt and rich in description, Rachel Cusk unravels a gentle critique of fame, celebrity and the constructedness of reality in her latest novel. The post Is this the real life? A c...
Imagination, empathy and intelligence should matter as well as identity
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Our critic’s picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season.
Review of 'What's So Great About the Great Books?' by Naomi Kanakia
Science fiction and fantasy blend in a novel that bursts with big themes: love and loss, family and parenthood, science and nature, and risking everything for a second chance.
Using Literary Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction to Teach International Relations and Migration By Sefa Secen, University of South Florida IR courses run on datasets, models, and st...
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” —William Shakespeare * * * We’re all familiar with Shakespeare’s take on the subject of brevity. But in the 21st century, brevity may be the soul of...
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