The Hunger Games

Comically thick book

Books just keep getting longer

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

How Hollywood’s release race is killing directors and costing Oscars

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

The 2013 People’s Choice Award winners

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

The year of Katniss

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

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‘The Hunger Games’: your kids are angrier than you think

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

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Move over Twilight, the latest Hunger book is here

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