“I describe it as a fantasy novel about the real world we live in, or a realistic novel about the fantasy world we live in.” Anthem is Noah Hawley’s terrific, page-turning sixth novel, and his first after his Edgar Award-winning bestseller, Before The Fall—it’s also our January 2022 Barnes & Noble Book Club pick. Noah […]

Fetch the popcorn, finalize your ballots, and strap in for glitz and glam: it’s awards season! The race for Best Picture may still be wide open (though The Big Short and The Revenant are the presumed leaders of the pack), but you’ve likely already decided on your own personal favorites. As is custom, a great many […]

Hollywood’s biggest, glitziest, and longest night of the year has come and gone. Chris Rock went there at an Academy Awards® show that didn’t shy away from politics. Rather than avoiding or ignoring the #OscarsSoWhite controversy over the lack of diversity among this year’s nominees, Rock took the stage and spent virtually his entire monologue […]

From the box office to the bookstore, 2015 has been an especially good time to be a fan of sci-fi and fantasy. Our plates are filled to overflowing with tasty treats, from Star Wars and superhero films, to killer TV shows, to more badass SF/F books than we could ever hope to read. Here’s what […]

Whether you want to call it a pop culture trend or a reflection of the new global political zeitgeist, there’s no denying that we’re smack in the middle of some kind of Golden Age of the Dystopian Novel. Countless authors have turned their eyes toward the future and found it wanting—whether due to a climate […]