What’s stranger than fiction? Maybe the present. Even so, sci-fi writers are pushing themselves to imagine new futures during Clarion West’s annual write-a-thon.

It isn’t some sealed-off queer biosphere with its own infrastructure. It’s a world of its own, yet still deeply embedded in ...

A bookworm's dream has hit the market for $1.6m - a property with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with 7,000 hardbacks.

W ith the ever present threat of World War Three looming on the horizon, it’s hard to have faith in humanity’s future. Many ...

AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the ...

At age 99 I recognize the surprising part the Brooklyn Dodgers played as a sustaining element in a lifetime of confronting ...

Ocean Vuong’s newest novel 'Emperor of Gladness' reminds us that human connection is the greatest universal truth.

With his new book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation, philosopher William M. Paris makes an important contribution to ...

Michel Krielaars’ The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin is a fascinating look at the perils of making music under the maniacal Soviet dictator. We know much about the broken lives and ...

A highlight of this year’s event is the $10,000 challenge match grant from the J.J. Keller Foundation. This grant will match new or increased donations made at the Utopia event, up to $1,000 per ...

Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.