Hailed by the New York Times as “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction,” Margaret Atwood crafted a novel that feels as relevant today as it did when it was published in 1985. The Handmaid’s ...
QUESTION: Who coined the term dystopian? What is considered the earliest dystopian novel? English philosopher John Stuart Mill coined the term in 1868, using it in a House of Commons debate on ...
In Nicola Yoon’s One of Our Kind, a dystopian novel of a Black upper-class suburb’s secrets, she examines the dangers of ...
Sam Altman, the visionary CEO of OpenAI and a pivotal figure behind ChatGPT, has often shared his literary preferences, ...
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's recent election victory, a wave of books tackling democracy, tyranny, feminism, and ...
In her new novel Gliff, Smith’s new normal is a dictatorial world where everyone is surveilled. Sound familiar?
“The Handmaid’s Tale” was popular throughout Trump’s first term, along with such dark futuristic narratives as George ...
To find hope in the aftermath of this month’s election, I don’t have to look any further than the notes I took for the two ...
At Barnes & Noble, “Fiction and nonfiction books that feature fascism, feminism, dystopian worlds and both right-and-left leaning politics rocketed up our sales charts with the election results ...