Crafting a convincing unreliable narrator might be one of the most difficult things a thriller writer does. Of course, a narrator doesn’t have to be unreliable. A perfectly dependable narrator ...

One of the most effective tools in this genre is the unreliable narrator -- a character whose account of events is distorted, misleading, or incomplete. This narrative device pulls audiences into ...

1. For the purposes of this column, I’m putting antiheroes into two categories: the sociopathic and the delusional. Don Quixote is of the latter category: He’s insane, vainglorious and ...

This protagonist is known as the unreliable narrator, who leaves viewers questioning the story's accuracy.

Not only two enormously unreliable narrators, but also two pretty despicable ones. Suspicion and recrimination swings between Nick and Amy as we watch their marriage disintegrate but then slowly ...

and unreliable narration (the unreliable first-person narrator, who knows less about himself than the reader eventually does). On one side, Tolstoy, say; and on the other, Humbert Humbert or Italo ...