J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

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 ...

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 ...

Settling down to read detective stories can be an enjoyable escape from mundane life. But the fictional world of crime is, unfortunately, not immune to racial prejudices. After all, Sherlock Holmes, ...