Just a few days until the election, and a writer’s thoughts naturally turn to dystopias. Yes, dystopias — those stories where everything has gone to hell, hopefully in a compulsively readable way.

As sales for '1984' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' skyrocket, independent bookstores tell EW about the resurgent dystopian wave ... and the other genres where they're seeing readers gravitate But after ...

It's a crazy world, and we're all living in it. Why are people suddenly so fascinated with reading about tyrannical war-filled worlds? Have Americans reached a level of uncertainty with the government ...

Note: This essay on the Hunger Games phenomenon and the rise and fall of YA dystopias was originally published in 2021. It has been updated and republished due to the 2023 release of the prequel movie ...