Only a portion of Ms. Han’s fiction is available in English, but what we have falls along a spectrum between allegory and extreme realism. On one pole is “The Vegetarian” (2007), about a ...

Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

The Jan. 15 New York Times mini crossword game hinted at a fictional Vermont college that's used as the setting of the show "The Sex Lives of College Girls." The show, which was co-created by New ...

In this month’s sci-fi picks, what’s worse? Coming face-to-face with the apocalypse or with our older selves? By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Ben Goodger’s ...

A former Michigan Supreme Court justice would like to see the end of so-called "fictional pleas" that allow defendants to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit so they can be eligible for ...

Chants of Sennaar, the 2023 language puzzle game from Rundisc, uses fictional languages but was developed in French and English. “Our choices of vocabulary, riddles, and puzzles were made from ...

(Or a mix of both.) But for those who like to indulge in books that are grounded in real-world figures and history, the historical fiction genre is here with a positively sweeping array of ...

After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet. By Alexandra Alter When ...

As rumors circulated Monday that China was looking to have the owner of X purchase TikTok, a representative for the latter said it was "pure fiction." Bloomberg reported on Monday that Chinese ...

Ross and Rachel. Carrie and Big. Edward and Bella. Romeo and Juliet. The list of famous fictonal couples runs long—but not one of the aforementioned made our list of the most memorable couples ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

I’d bring to life the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. He could work with the police force and use his superb reasoning skills to solve mind-boggling crimes.