Good novelists create characters who are complex. unique, and have relatable human needs and feelings. Joyce Carol Oates is one of our best contemporary novelists, and has created a host of memorable ...

A new study published in Psychology of Popular Media suggests that human romantic attraction to fictional characters may ...

The pantheon of superpowered heroes in pop culture continues to grow as the world consumes hundreds of thousands of stories across all media forms. Comic books, video games and manga have introduced ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...