Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with host Lindsay Ellis.

Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay El...

While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several c...

Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like y...

Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's a...

What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history?

Despite the adage of not judging a book by its cover, there’s a lot of time, intent, and money spent creating memorab...

You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to b...

Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more c...

Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using wo...

Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how t...

Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean tas...

Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadw...