Dystopia

News

Emily St. John Mandel Imagines America After the Fall

Emily St. John Mandel's forthcoming novel is set in 2031, after the dissolution of the United States. Sigrid Nørgaard considers what it means when a great writer turns her attention to the end of a country — and what kind of novel survives the wreckage.

Literature

Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s ‘Animal Colonial’: The Dystopia That Doesn’t Need to Imagine the Future

Rey Rosa’s new novel takes us into a dystopian megaprison where freedom dies slowly. A book that reads like a news report dressed as fiction.

News

What If Tris Had Chosen Differently? Veronica Roth Reimagines the Divergent Universe

Veronica Roth announces The Sixth Faction, an alternate universe Divergent story where Tris makes a different choice at her Choosing Ceremony. Coming October 2026.

Adaptations

The Hunger Games Returns: Haymitch Abernathy Was Human Before He Was Drunk

Lionsgate dropped the trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping, the Hunger Games prequel centered on Haymitch. Can an origin story rehabilitate a character — or does it just make things more complicated?