Roy Peter Clark has made a whole career out of his guides to better writing. But does his fiction manual actually work? “No one is born,” writes poetry critic Helen Vendler, “understanding string ...

One of the seminarians whom I teach came to me recently and said, half-joking, “I think I will scream if you write one more book list for the Register!” Yes, I realize that I have done a healthy ...

Science-fiction cinema has grown in both popularity and scope since its initiation into the larger culture. We’ve now entering an age in which sci-fi films are categorized into subsections of tone, ...

Fiction books are the gateway to an imaginative land where one can go back in time, explore unknown facets of history and enjoy the undiluted pleasures of reading with undivided attention. Explore ...

Penguin has been publishing high-quality paperbacks of classic science fiction since the late 1950s. As times change, you can see how the book covers move from stately red and black (above) to crazed ...