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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The America in Leni Zumas’s new novel, Red Clocks, is so familiar as to be almost unremarkable. Ro, a history teacher, has a ...

What’s remarkable about Leni Zumas’ new novel “Red Clocks” isn’t that the dystopia it presents is wildly imaginative but that it’s so close to what’s happening right now. It’s the day after tomorrow, ...

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 ...

“Red Clocks” (Little Brown, $26, 368 pages) 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, ...

Dystopia is sometimes conceived, sometimes proposed. Portland author Leni Zumas' Red Clocks (Little, Brown; 368 pages; $26) is set two years after Congress has ratified the Personhood Amendment ...

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, ...

In an all too real dystopian world, “Red Clocks” by Leni Zumas explores four women’s lives when abortion, adoption by a single parent, and in vitro fertilization are illegal in the United States. The ...

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 ...