From intimate betrayals to institutional rot, our pick of the year’s best thrillers examines power, complicity and moral ...

Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...

From Black Mirror to The Handmaid’s Tale, these are the most grounded speculative series that bend reality without totally ...

Which book is best out of this list of literary fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, memoir and more? That’s for you to decide.

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

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 ...

In 1944 the literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote an exasperated essay in the pages of The New Yorker titled “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?” Wilson, who at the time was about to go abroad to ...

It’s a big day for bookworms: scientists studying how reading fiction affects your brain say the news is very good. In an interview with PsyPost, Lena Wimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s ...

Recipient of an Australian Commonwealth scholarship to support his PhD studies, which are focused on how science fiction reflects the societal and cultural interests, attitudes and concerns of its ...

Reading fiction has been said to increase people’s empathy and compassion. But does the research really bear that out? Textual Healing is a season that explores the benefits of reading for mental ...