At long last, fans of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld’s iconic 2005 YA dystopian novel, have received the long-awaited screen adaptation. Somehow, Westerfeld’s series—a teen-targeted social commentary on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I think it’s fair to say film critics everywhere owe the YA genre an apology. Films about teens in sci-fi and fantasy settings who ...

Dystomance. That’s the newly coined subgenre combining dystopian fiction and romance. Best can tell, the term started popping up on Threads in November 2024 and went mainstream when Jenna Bush Hager ...

The ideas behind Uglies are even more relevant now than when Scott Westerfeld's original novel came out in 2005, so it's disappointing to see this adaptation fall so disastrously flat. Hampered by ...

The cast of "The Hate U Give" at the Atlanta Red Carpet Screening at Regal Atlantic Station. Young adult (YA) books offer some of the most beautiful, resonant and relevant writing being produced today ...

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Like most early Gen Z introverts, I developed my obsession with reading during the YA dystopian era. It was such a beautiful time. We were angsty, we believed a teenage rebel could change the world, ...

This summer, I have been obsessed with dystopia. From books to movies, I have devoured any media set in the future, particularly those with an implicit message about the greater good of society.

Netflix has just recently added a new/old movie to its catalog, and let's just say the feelings are mixed. The YA adaptation, The 5th Wave, is based on Rick Yancey's novel of the same name and was ...