The joke that all writers are crazy for choosing a profession with so little glamour or guaranteed return on investment is an old one, but it’s not that...

There are a lot of different ways to measure the success of a novel. Sales, certainly. Lasting cultural impact counts. Influence on future writers is...

For as long as we’ve had visions of utopia and perfect bliss, we’ve also envisioned the opposite. Mad scientists, thought police,...

When I was an unfortunate looking teenager, I took a very powerful acne drug with some very scary side effects, side effects serious enough that the...

Coming up with the title to a work is hard (except for New York Post headline writers), which makes for a convenient loophole in copyright law: Titles...

Although they can be deeply unsettling, I do love a good dystopian novel. They pinpoint the ways in which seemingly innocuous conveniences and safety...

Sales of George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 have skyrocketed in the wake of the NSA scandal. Clearly, the revelation that Big Brother actually is...