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What connects these books is how each author uses them. Here are ten sci-fi and fantasy books like The Hunger Games.

Buchi Emecheta went from an orphaned girl in Lagos to a librarian, sociologist, novelist, lecturer, and internationally recognised writer.

Reading can be quiet, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. Make things with the books you read. Photograph them. Collect and redesign them.

University is about more than lectures, exams, and earning a degree. It is also a time to develop better habits, understand yourself, explore different perspectives, and prepare for life after graduat...

College life involves much more than attending lectures and completing assignments. Success often depends on how well you can understand complex ideas, process information, communicate your thoughts, ...

On the continent stories were carried by voices long before ink came onto paper. In west Africa, griots recorded the entire family history in their memory and transmitted genealogies, proverb and warn...

Like every major movement in art history, gore art is an emotional language designed to process humanity’s most overwhelming experiences.

Not every branch deserves the same defence. This conflict explains much of the appeal of forbidden love romance books.

We Should All Be Feminists is perhaps her most direct attempt to turn those questions into a conversation.

Horror romance is one of fiction’s oldest and most enduring combinations, where tenderness and terror orbit each other.

ISTJ characters are necessary breathers because they often represent duty in its most intentional form. But is that all there is to them?

One way of reviving African literature may not be just in terms of new themes, but in terms of new forms or structures.

Buchi Emecheta went from an orphaned girl in Lagos to a librarian, sociologist, novelist, lecturer, and internationally recognised writer.

Every story has an origin. The author’s perspective shapes narratives, influences characters, and engages audiences.

Sefi Atta turns everyday motions into something remarkable, stories that make you ask what parts of your own life you’ve been overlooking.

Narratives do not always need dramatic transformations. A static character is not simply someone who does nothing.

The round vs flat character debate becomes more interesting when “flatness” stops being treated as a synonym for poor writing.

We’ve all heard the golden rule of creative writing: “Show, don’t tell.” But what happens when we apply this rule to the theme in literature?

The round vs flat character debate becomes more interesting when “flatness” stops being treated as a synonym for poor writing.

An author can publish independently. This has made it difficult to define the relationship between the internet and reading.

Is literary fiction actually “better” than genre fiction, or has everyone simply agreed to act like it is?

Both Game of Thrones  and The Wheel of Time completely reshaped the fantasy genre, but they did it in almost opposite ways.

Few literary conversations embody these contrasts more fully than the enduring debate surrounding prose vs poetry.

Classic horror novels acted as mirrors of their time, but not always fairly, reflecting fear and distortion.