The Dispossessed centers around a clash of civilizations: the planet Urras, and its moon, Anarres, which was settled by a group of anarchists has been isolationist since then.

The Ministry for the Future starts out by planting us in the middle of a living nightmare. A pre-monsoon heatwave in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is creating wet-bulb temperatures approaching the limit of human survivability.

Maybe I'm weird, but art that faces the bleak head-on is strangely comforting to me

There is a sort of voyeuristic allure to Bret Easton Ellis novels for me. For whatever reason, I love to read about hypersexual nihilists with far too much money and far too much access to cocaine.

Billie Eilish is going to star as Esther Greenwood in an upcoming movie adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. The film, directed by Sarah Polley, is currently in production.

I picked up this book because of its premise.

Which is creepier: Pennywise, or the way Stephen King wrote the main female child character of this book?

Can we ever truly understand what it is like to be another animal? In 1974, Thomas Nagel published what would become one of the most well-known papers in the field of philosophy of mind: “Wha…

There’s just something about turkeys that really makes me feel at peace, and I’ve been surprised because I wasn’t expecting to connect so much with them. I guess I’d just ne…

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

After reading Tony Tulathimutte's short story collection Rejection I knew that I had found a new favorite contemporary author. And picking up his novel, Private Citizens, next, did not disappoint.

The dog reminded me what it meant to be gentle — to embrace another living being.

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Before you can say much about how we should or should not treat animals in society, it’s important to be specific about what forms harm to animals can take and why these are harms.