(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...

In honor of the NBCC's 50th anniversary, longlists for six genres will be revealed for the very first time ahead of the organization's annual awards Riverhead Books; National Book Awards; Random House ...

All books provide an escape, but great books—the ones you clutch close to your chest after reading the last page—offer readers a life-affirming blend of comfort and reassurance. And lately, no genre ...

This post was updated Jan. 15 at 7:56 p.m. The Television Academy’s limited recognition of speculative fiction is far from magical. With the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards airing Monday, fans of the genre ...

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 ...

Out of all the horrifying icebreakers she could have gone with on that snowy first day in a class full of English majors, Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, literatures in English, chose the absolute worst one: ...