Jeff VanderMeer

The best-written stories can make readers feel as if they have passed through mundane states of being and been brought over to another universe.

Twenty years after it was first published, Kirsten Bakis’s extraordinary novel Lives of the Monster Dogs still has a lot to say about the entwined destinies of animals and humans.

A new biography takes a meticulous, at times exhausting, look at the revered writer’s life and work.

In its third season, the series achieves an imaginative moral and narrative depth that counteracts its often-dark scenarios.

The 1974 science-fiction novel by D.G. Compton predicted a future where even the most private moments are broadcast as entertainment.

The author agreed to publish three novels in one year—and then things got weird.

From Leonora Carrington to Haruki Murakami, disparate writers tap into something universal when they channel the bizarre.