How many of us made it through the chaotic past year without occasionally wishing to wake up in an alternative universe? Novelists have the tools to rearrange our reality, testing the limits of things ...

Historic clock restoration specialist Chuck Roeser of Lockport, New York ducks under one of four clock mechanisms run by a E. Howard & Co. tower clock in the old, red Dallas County Courthouse, now ...

"Red Clocks” might sound like a dystopian novel, but plenty of conservative politicians are plotting to make it a work of nonfiction. In fact, the author, Leni Zumas, has said that she drew the most ...

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In May, Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng recommended Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Follow ...

In Portland author Leni Zumas' America, women's family planning rights are all but relics. Abortion has been recriminalized nationwide. Canada has established a "Pink Wall" blocking American women ...

Sir Thomas More coined the term “utopia,” meaning “a place of ideal perfection,” in his book of the same title in 1516. More than 300 years passed before John Stuart Mill coined that term’s antonym, ...

The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists. The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all ...