HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

You are excused for not having heard of it – Northlandia is a fantasy country built in Fung’s vivid imagination and forms part of her interdisciplinary work centred around a dystopian five ...

The Russo brothers’ upcoming Netflix movie The Electric State may be set in an alternate ‘90s dystopian reality, but stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say that the movie’s themes of ...