These are Scotland's 10 greatest poets - and none of them are dead
It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...
A Propulsive, Brutal ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Is Here. And It’s Great.
Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original ...
We Already Know How ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ Ends. That Doesn’t Erase Its Impact.
We already know how 'Sunrise on the Reaping' ends, but that doesn’t erase the 'Hunger Games' prequel's power. Here's what ...
Sandra Oh and Ann Marie Fleming unite for subtle dystopia in Can I Get a Witness?
Director Ann Marie Fleming and actor Sandra Oh first met in the 1990s working on a film in which Oh was cast as the daughter ...
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I’ll Have the Psychedelic Dystopia With Everything on It
The dystopia situated in Three Rivers ... Can one be so naïve right now as to maintain our inalienable right to poetry (and to live poetically)? And isn’t there something insurrectionary ...
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Felice Picano: Pioneering author & publisher leaves a literary legacy
Prolific author, publisher and editor Felice Picano died at his home in Los Angeles on March 12 of lymphoma. He was 81. Since then, numerous authors and people in the publishing industry had praised ...
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In Octavia Butler’s Pasadena, readers pick up visionary novel and find lessons in post-fire LA
Guidance includes poems Butler wrote at the beginning of each chapter ... weeks ago and is on to Butler’s “The Parable of the ...
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Bengaluru's beloved bookstore and café, Champaca, to open doors in Indiranagar
From caste narratives in rural India to dystopian futures where people can move the earth; moving personal memoirs on mental ...
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Skynet’s Blueprint: Did Terminator Foresee Generative AI’s Creative Explosion?
The Terminator franchise, started by James Cameron in 1984, cast a haunting picture of out-of-control artificial intelligence ...
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Was Plato’s Republic a Utopian Vision or a Dystopian Nightmare?
From the leadership of philosopher-kings to state-controlled education, it’s worth seeing whether his proposals represent a ...