Literary Genres

What is romantasy? And why is it the latest bestselling book trend?

The genre is wedded to the structure of the romance novel, often including the romantic happy ending, but it included fantastical elements and/or settings.

Jodi McAlister, The Conversation
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Kate Cuthbert, The Conversation
· Apr 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm
How romance fiction is rewriting the rulebook: Five things you didn’t know about love in novels

Contemporary romance fiction is challenging the prevailing wisdom about how books come into being and find their readers.

Beth Driscoll, The Conversation
&
Kim Wilkins, The Conversation
· Oct 10, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history

While the term was coined 28 years ago, it can pertain to multiple kinds of work created by Black people across history.

Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation
· Jun 27, 2022 · 08:30 am

Climate fiction: Both utopic and dystopic views of the world are necessary in this literature

Cli-fi by Margaret Atwood and Stanley Robinson, among others, will prove to be a defining genre for our apocalyptic times.

Bernadette McBride, The Conversation
· Sep 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography

Is it fact, fiction, or something in between? The publishing business in India doesn’t seem to have an answer.

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· Jun 30, 2019 · 07:30 am
Why we should remember Satyajit Ray (also) for the horror stories he wrote

Beyond his cinema and his detective fiction, the auteur-author also made your blood run cold with some of his stories.

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
· Mar 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

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Literary Genres

What is romantasy? And why is it the latest bestselling book trend?

The genre is wedded to the structure of the romance novel, often including the romantic happy ending, but it included fantastical elements and/or settings.

Jodi McAlister, The Conversation & Kate Cuthbert, The Conversation · Apr 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm

How romance fiction is rewriting the rulebook: Five things you didn’t know about love in novels

Contemporary romance fiction is challenging the prevailing wisdom about how books come into being and find their readers.

Beth Driscoll, The Conversation & Kim Wilkins, The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history

While the term was coined 28 years ago, it can pertain to multiple kinds of work created by Black people across history.

Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation · Jun 27, 2022 · 08:30 am

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Cli-fi by Margaret Atwood and Stanley Robinson, among others, will prove to be a defining genre for our apocalyptic times.

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Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography

Is it fact, fiction, or something in between? The publishing business in India doesn’t seem to have an answer.

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Why we should remember Satyajit Ray (also) for the horror stories he wrote

Beyond his cinema and his detective fiction, the auteur-author also made your blood run cold with some of his stories.

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Jodi McAlister, The Conversation
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· Apr 28, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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&
Kim Wilkins, The Conversation
· Oct 10, 2022 · 05:30 pm

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· Jun 27, 2022 · 08:30 am

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· Sep 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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