Many have heard the term “cult classic,” but few could clearly define it. When it comes to movies, a cult classic is one that builds an almost obsessive following with fans who can recite every line, ...

In an age when surprise often ranks above substance, fictional media seems all but held hostage by cliched plot twists. It's ...

Anna Moschovakis’ “An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth” is my kind of novel: taut and narratively ambiguous, a book of riddles or a riddle of a book. It takes place in an unnamed ...

The way Martha Stewart sees it, her life story is pretty simple. “Here’s this girl from a family of eight in Nutley, N.J., living modestly, who gets a good idea, builds it into something really fine ...

An unreliable narrator cannot be trusted. Sign up here. As with most linear storylines, the narrator knows far more than the reader, and Carraway’s is no different. From the first word, he is hiding ...

During the ID@Xbox presentation, we got a creepy but intriguing look at Centum, an upcoming point-and-click adventure game scheduled to launch sometime this summer. The game is set to release for Xbox ...

Bill Simmons wants people to recognize just how unreliable former players can be as narrators of NBA history. Don’t get The Ringer founder wrong ‚ he enjoys “some of the ex-player stuff.” But when it ...

The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors. I can tell a story in the third person or in the first person, and perhaps in the second person singular, or in the first person ...