Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor, war volunteer, campaigner for justice, politician, and believer in the spirit world, created one of literature’s most famous characters. In his lifetime, he wrote ghost ...

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Even the magazine’s longtime fiction editor William Maxwell worried about its “cult of clarity and literalness.” (In a 1984 parody by Martha Bayles, a chin-stroking story writer changes ...

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula ...

Samuel L. Jackson is ringing in three decades of Pulp Fiction with a callback to a classic scene. In an Instagram post on Monday to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the cult classic film’s ...

Tim O'Brien’s collection of interconnected short stories blurs the line between historical fiction and autobiography. His 1990 book about a platoon of American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War is ...

Samuel L. Jackson is ringing in three decades of Pulp Fiction with a callback to a classic scene. In an Instagram post on Monday to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the cult classic film’s ...

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