I’ve always been fascinated by other people’s collections of their most beloved characters. Whenever I get caught up in a random geeky conversation with friends, colleagues, or the myriad friendly ...

While I was enduring a bout with COVID back in February, I found an old copy of The Great Gatsby on the bookshelf of my basement quarantine refuge and read it again for the first time in many years.

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...

In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found. In lonely ...

The downside of loving a fictional character is that fans of saif characters never get a chance to see them grow once the show or movie ends. Of course, that is, unless Hollywood decides to greenlight ...