One of the most effective tools in this genre is the unreliable narrator -- a character whose account of events is distorted, ...

MAJOR SPOILERS for It Ends With Us are ahead! Lily's "Unreliable Narrator" admission in the movie adaptation of It Ends With Us acknowledges a major character debate rising since the novel's ...

But what if the book has an unreliable narrator? What if you can't trust the narrator to give you an accurate picture of events? For my novel, With Malice, I wanted to take the unreliable narrator ...

Yet when this flagrantly unreliable narrator narrated his own story, people across the media spectrum responded as if his personal narratives could be relied upon. Again, why? As Smith makes clear ...

Something like this shows the potential value in taking concepts and core ideas instead of just ... Monaco uses the old “unreliable narrator” trick to set up its plot twist, and, in William ...

Colin Winnette and Jeremy M. Davies each have a new novel featuring an unreliable narrator: Winnette's Coyote follows a possibly unhinged mother and Davies's Fancy is about a man looking for a ...

The unreliable narrator is one of the harder tricks to pull off well in a novel, with its constraints on the writer to convey the story by telling a subjective or incomplete version of it.

Lena Dunham begins the chapter in her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl” titled “Barry” with the mother of all disclaimers: “I’m an unreliable narrator,” which would be a fun twist if ...

Everyone on the internet seems to be joking about their deteriorating mental health these days, and it makes Aparna Nancherla squirm. But also, she gets it. She did make a name for herself in the ...