The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and ...

I had only ever been exposed to the typical high school English class short stories. I was traumatized by stories like “The ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

The Amazing Book Challenge returns for 2025 with 12 new themes designed to take readers on an unexpected literary adventure.

'Geralt cannot let Yennefer go': The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep has an easter egg that was cut from the main series, and it'll likely include more about Geralt and Yennefer ...

Steven Soderbergh’s latest is a haunted house story told from the ghost’s point of view. Or rather, seen through the ghost’s POV; the director filmed the entire thing on a handheld camera ...

His latest film, “Presence,” is another cinematic experiment, a ghost story seen from the point of view of, well, the ghost. Point-of-view filmmaking and its cinematic language of visual ...

The simultaneous braininess and gimmickry of this technique, applied to a David Koepp screenplay that unapologetically eschews A Ghost Story-style metaphysical traversing, could have stranded ...

Echoing Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Story Paradox (Basic Books, 2021), Breithaupt warns that our addiction to narrative—however fulfilling—can close off possibilities outside the ...

Oak trees have genetic flexibility that allows them to solve ecological problems. But even they will need our help to survive climate change ...

Thomas mentions that these stories repeat the same warnings and affirm his larger claim: global cataclysms happen in cycles, whether anyone is prepared or not. The book concludes with a short profile ...