In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the first major loss experienced by the story's heroes was the seeming death of Gandalf, who fell from the Bridge of Khazad-dûm following his ...

When your favourite movie, show or book doesn’t hit the spot, India’s fan-fiction writers spin old plots into new. Would you upvote a crossover into the canon? Picture this: Aneet Padda and Ahaan ...

Is fiction good for us? We spend huge chunks of our lives immersed in novels, films, TV shows, and other forms of fiction. Some see this as a positive thing, arguing that made-up stories cultivate our ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

Crowds make their way through the Shibuya District in Tokyo, home to a key railway station and one of its busiest neighborhoods. Rudy Sulgan/Corbis Yuval Noah Harari has a few unconventional theories ...

From a "richly atmospheric" novella to a "virtuosic" debut – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists. This part-fictionalised historical novel from the bestselling ...