Dystopia
Hunger Games: Gender, Violence, and Of Course, Merchandise
After months of waiting, fans of The Hunger Games will be descending in droves on theaters this weekend, eager to take in the big screen adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel of the same name. If you’re one of the uninitiated, the story goes like this: in a dystopian future, North America has been […]
Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart set his new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, in a dystopian, not-too-distant future where books are passe and social media reigns supreme ? just like the present, only worse. Shteyngart tells Kurt how the reality of America’s decline ended up outpacing his fiction and why love in the face of authoritarian systems […]
Why is teen dystopian literature on the rise?
For decades, teenagers have enjoyed stories of darkness and dystopia ? from social critiques like ?The Lord of the Flies? to dystopian nightmares like ?A Clockwork Orange.? But in the last year or two, the market for dystopian and apocalyptic young adult fiction has exploded with more books and darker stories than ever, and the […]