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‘Enemies to lovers,’ ‘secret relationship,’ ‘love triangle,’ — does trope-heavy, emotionally gratifying literature have any real value for readers? A recent UW grad shares her thoughts. Reading more ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Every bookworm has their favorite tropes. All novels belong to a particular genre, but their stories differ from one another thanks to their tropes. Tropes are plot devices that add a special touch by ...

The dystopian novels that were all the rage during my pre-teen years are being mimicked by new books that copy the plot and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only one person can save the world—who could it be? Those born in April may have imagined themselves becoming this unsung hero in ...