You walk into a movie theatre, settle into your seat, and the film begins. Everything feels familiar – until a character looks directly at you and starts talking to you. If that weren’t enough, they ...

If you’re not familiar with the concept of metafiction, Jeff Kramer’s new novel, “Mud Season,” is a great introduction. Kramer is a former newspaper journalist in Syracuse who previously had beats in ...

The gripping true story of a Tunisian mother whose two elder daughters joined ISIS is overlaid with fictional, self-analyzing elements in fascinating if not always convincing ways. Often, Olfa, Eya ...

It's amazing that there aren't more first novels about writing novels, considering the nearly universal admonition of writing teachers to "write what you know" and the tendency toward autobiography ...

Jailed director Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself, forced to shoot his new film in a town near the border with Turkey As Iranian women rise up against their misogynist bullies, this is a good ...