THESE days, it seems every celebrity wants to put their name to a book club: among the rich and famous, they are as common as ...

Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of ...

Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

Few horror stories are as influential as H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel, The War of the Worlds. Written more than a century ago, this story introduced readers of the time to a fear they'd never fathomed ...

Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite ...

If you loved the narrative twists of Looper, the urgency of Run Lola Run, or the philosophical undertones of Source Code, ...

Of course you should read the classics of the Western literary canon, but if you’re short on time or patience, these screen ...

So it makes perfect sense that we’re now going one step further with Cosmo Reads, a brand-new imprint in partnership with ...

Here’s a curated list combining the most significant books that accurately predicted elements of our future. These works, through fiction and foresight, have highlighted major technological, societal, ...

STAR-BEGOTTEN—H. G. Wells—Viking ($1.75). Every man, it is said, has one good book in him. But many a professional writer distributes his first-rate potentialities over a series of ...