Did you see that coming? Because I certainly didn't with these excellent plot twists. There comes a time in everyone's life when we watch a movie, and it's going all fine and dandy, and then a twist ...

The only way you’re going to be able to successfully write a screenplay is if you know the key terms of the profession like the back of your hand. There are two concepts that are often seen as ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Remus is a writer, editor, journalist, and author with an eye for detail and an extremely active imagination. He is an enthusiast of everything to do with the graphic medium, whether it's Western ...

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

Literary paranoia, like pollen, thickens the air this spring. In the past two months, I’ve reviewed two suspense novels whose plots center on a struggling or would-be writer helping themselves to ...

David Simon’s potent HBO adaptation of the Philip Roth novel imagines a country tilting toward fascism. By James Poniewozik There’s a repeating motif in David Simon’s passionate, gutting adaptation of ...

Jean Hanff Korelitz’s “The Plot” is an addictive Russian nesting doll of a novel where every character’s hand fits neatly into someone else’s pocket. By Elisabeth Egan Jean Hanff Korelitz is the ...