The Giver's greatest strength is Lois Lowry's wonderful 1993 book, a dystopian fable for children about everything a model community loses with suppression of emotion and pain. But it is also its ...

The Giver, based on Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel, is frankly a little late to the YA party, having arrived after similar movies such as Divergent, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and Harry ...

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The new movie The Giver stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges. It's an adaptation of the young adult novel by Lois Lowry about a world where emotion and feeling have been done away with. You know, ...

If "The Giver" had opened in the 1990s as originally intended, before the young adult dystopia boom, it could have been huge. The film opened just north of $12.7 million this weekend, which is chump ...

The road to "The Giver" was paved with good intentions -- and potholes deep enough to bury it. Lois Lowry's 1993 novel is a staple on middle-school reading lists and on lists of banned books. Teachers ...

Take it back! In “The Giver,” out Friday, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites, right) is assigned to receive all the memories his “perfect” community has extinguished, like war, poverty and puppies. It’s not the ...

So, let’s talk about that scene in “The Giver.” The one with the baby. The movie, which had a soft $12 million opening this weekend (from a $25 million budget), is based on Lois Lowry’s controversial ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. The Giver’s ...

Harry Potter was the spark that began the latest flame of movies based on young adult novels. The Twilight and The Hunger Games films have kept the sub-genre thriving at full potential, studios buying ...

Lois Lowry might just be the godmother of dystopian YA fiction. The author of over 40 books is best known for her 1993 novel "The Giver," a story set in a utopian society where people no longer feel ...