Fan fiction is essentially original writing about existing fictional characters or, sometimes, real people like celebrities. The original medium fan fiction is based on can vary from books, movies, ...

First we had Inventing Anna, the story of how fake heiress Anna Sorokin scammed her way into the social circles of New York’s elite. Next came The Dropout, documenting how entrepreneur Elizabeth ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

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 ...

His name is Moon. He is the youngest member of a K-pop band with a global following. Before the narrator, an American living in Berlin, sees him perform, her idea of transcendence is purely ...

Aristotle claimed art had two sources: Our instinct to imitate and our instinct for rhythm and harmony. The aesthetic rendering of reality enables fiction to provide us with emotionally satisfying ...

At one of my children’s sporting events a few weeks ago, another parent arrived to cheer on our sons’ team carrying a foldout chair in one hand and, in case the game was a blowout, a book in the other ...

One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a hacktivist group in a DDoS attack. As they say, sometimes truth is ...

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Aristotle claimed art had two sources: Our instinct to imitate and our instinct for rhythm and harmony. The aesthetic rendering of reality enables fiction to provide us with emotionally satisfying ...