Books like Neuromancer, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Martian feature the most amazing opening lines in sci-fi history, instantly hooking the reader.

From émigré roots to a titan of modern cinema, penning classics such as Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, a new retrospective celebrates the father of film noir’s incredible career

The best closing lines in book history can be found in classics like The Great Gatsby, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and The Lord of the Rings.

An expectant father investigates AI, interviewing tech executives and experts to grasp how it could affect his child's life — and humanity's future.

Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, ...

This article discusses Scott Garson's flash fiction platform Wigleaf, which has been operating for 17 years. The platform hosts short story fiction and has won several Pushcart Prizes. While catering to the literary community, it became popular after Margaret Atwood tweeted about it.

“Fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism,” is how director Paul Verhoeven described the characters in his 1995 film.

He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.

LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, presented the 2026 Hugo Awards in a ceremony held at the convention on Sunday, August 30th, 2026. The full results including the detailed reports…

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The longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners and three debut novelists

I Want to be Fernando Pessoa… or at least one of his pseudonyms

when there aren't any rules

In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments and ecologies, her pacifist anarchist feminism, and her anti-Vietnam War activism. A Wiza…

Every so often—sometimes in October, when the annual Best American Short Stories anthology is published, or on the infrequent occasions when an iconic short story writer like George Saunders, Alice…

A Laundry List

Imagining a post-literate future

Anthropic must pay thousands of impacted authors.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Below is the 2026 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, and to access Rankings for Nonfiction and Poetry, please go here…

The nation’s official advocate for children’s books says most of them are “crud.” But matters of literary quality don’t explain why kids aren’t reading.

The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.

The Netflix sci-fi hit Stephen King loved.

From 'Get Out' to 'Evil Dead', Dani Bethea examines how horror and comedy go hand in hand. Read more now on Dread Central.