The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

Aristotle claimed art had two sources: Our instinct to imitate and our instinct for rhythm and harmony. The aesthetic rendering of reality enables fiction to provide us with emotionally satisfying ...