For a while, it seemed as if the only stories anyone wanted to tell were dystopian, but as our own world has grown increasingly grim, people seem a bit tired of dreadful worlds full of misery. “Where ...

"Utopia Drive" is a road trip that provides perspective about our nation as we head into heated election. New books for children include "Ninja Librarians" and "The Thing About Leftovers." Plus, a ...

“Memories are unreliable . . . Art is memory made public,” a musician muses in David Mitchell’s new novel, “Utopia Avenue.” Mitchell taps into an enduring public memory for the book: the late ’60s. It ...

Review of the new graphic novel on the life of French Communard and anarchist Louise Michel, "The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia" by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot. Submitted by Kate Sharpley on ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Your Utopia, Bora Chung’s 2021 collection of short stories, uses horror and humor to tackle the fate of humanity. Eight inventive tales, newly translated from the ...

The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is republishing this excerpt. Alexander Heffner: Where do we draw the line ...

David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ to come out in book form David Byrne is adapting his stage play “American Utopia” for the printed page. The former Talking Heads frontman is collaborating with the ...

The New Wave musician and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne cannot have known a pandemic was en route when he decided to convert his 2019 Broadway show, American Utopia, into an ...

ANGEL IN THE FOREST — Marguer/’re Young—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). On the banks of the Wabash, some 30 miles from Evansville, Indiana, stands New Harmony, an ordinary, none too sprightly town of 1,400 ...