10 New Must-Reads for October
As we ease our way into the scariest month of the year, it’s time again for us to present our list of the most exciting books due to grace our shelves in the weeks to come. This month, take your pick...
View Article10 Novels That Will Disturb Even the Coldest of Hearts
[Editor's note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we're revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published May 18, 2011.]...
View ArticleA Brief Guide to Surviving the Most Frightening Fictional Diseases
Today marks the release of Ben Marcus’s long-awaited fourth novel, The Flame Alphabet, in which language becomes lethal, estranging families, turning children (who are solely immune) into something...
View Article10 of the Strangest Apocalypses in Literature
Nuclear war, zombies, alien attack, impact event. These are what we think about when we think about literary apocalypses (or any fictional apocalypses, for that matter). But don’t get too comfortable,...
View ArticleThe 10 Best End of the World Novels
This week marks the release of The Dog Stars, the debut novel by adventure writer Peter Heller, a stunning, hope-riddled end-of-the-world story about a man and his dog nine years after almost everyone...
View Article10 New Must-Reads For December
2012 has been a pretty great year for book lovers — this fall, in particular, was filled with fantastic releases both big-name and under the radar. So we’d understand if this December, generally a...
View ArticleThe Doubles: 10 Pairs of Great Books With the Same Titles
There must be something in the water this spring — that’s the water the publishing industry all drinks, that is. This month, Algonquin is publishing Jill McCorkle’s novel Life After Life, and in April,...
View Article10 Plague Novels That Will Not Help You Deal With the Ebola Virus
So, if we’re to believe David Miliband, head of an International Rescue Committee meant to prevent a full-on outbreak of the Ebola virus, we’re now at an “absolute tipping point” that could lead to...
View Article50 Great Dark Books for the Dark Days of Winter
We’ve reached the time of year when the days seem impossibly short and the nights never ending. Good if you’re a vampire or like to go to sleep early, less exciting for the rest of us. So what is one...
View ArticleViolence, Beauty, Charm: How Helen Oyeyemi’s Fabulist Fiction Embraces the...
In literary fiction, the word “fabulist” is as hard to define as any. To be sure, it designates a writer who mixes the fantastical with the quotidian. But it also suggests a quickened mind that is...
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