All posts tagged "dystopian"
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
August 27, 2024Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
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Fiction Reviews
Fahrenheit 451: Avatar of the New Man
August 9, 2024Francois Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 begins with a striking narration of the film’s credits. The premise is...
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Books
Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
July 6, 2024Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
July 6, 2024On opening night, the theater was filled with preteen girls carrying bows and wearing shirts that...
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Movies
Movie Review: Repo Men
January 24, 2024The only way it could be more topical is if there was a subplot about Sandra...
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Dystopian Futures
January 24, 2024The March 19 release Repo Men is about a near-future in which organ transplants are simple,...
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Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
October 22, 2023I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...