(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 ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

July 2, 2021 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Sometimes you want to dive deeper than the traditional mystery, romance, thriller, sci-fi, and fantasy books. If ...

It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...