Iconic fictional characters often achieve this status through daring feats, unique powers, and the use of fantastical objects that elicit wonder in the audience. Some of the most memorable fictional ...

You don’t have to be real to be rich, and in today’s tumultuous economy, living in fantasy is a lot less likely to lead to disappointment. For You: I’m a Self-Made Millionaire: 6 Steps I Took To ...

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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 ...

In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Old, Boring, White and Mean: How Professors Appear on the Small Screen," the author Jenny Rodgers proposes that most fictional television ...