The Hunger Games

What’s behind literary inflation? Authors get more verbose as they garner success, but prestige TV has also changed readers’ habits

Barry Hertz on the pressure for filmmakers to be quicker, faster and stronger

The people have spoken. And they love The Hunger Games, and Zac Efron.

Newmakers 2012: There’s no denying Suzanne Collins’s heroine hit the zeitgeist right in the sweet spot

A frightening story about kids killing other kids for the amusement of adults has become a blockbuster. Here’s why.

’Mockingjay,’ the final volume, is getting the full J.K. Rowling-Dan Brown treatment