Mommy Planet by Margaret Driscal Dystopian fiction tends towards themes of technocratic authoritarianism, the persecution of marginalized groups and generally, bad vibes. There is often a Byronic hero ...

Would it be Barry Keoghan, I wondered, who’d don a waistcoat and scraggly mane to play our brooding Byronic hero? And who could possibly take the part of Cathy? Well, at least on that front ...

Out on the wily, windy moors... Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is starting to take shape. Having announced back in July that her follow-up to last year's spicy satire Saltburn will be a fresh ...

Snape oozes brooding Byronic hero. Dark and deeply flawed, he strides around Hogwarts like a cauldron ready to boil over. At first, we think it’s down to the fact he never manages to get awarded ...

Actor Paapa Essiedu has spoken out for the first time since being cast as Severus Snape in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter adaption along with five other stars. The 34-year-old actor’s casting has ...

Townes Van Zandt lived the life of both an 18th-century byronic hero and a 19th-century cowboy. He was tragically brilliant, broken, and lost too soon. However, everything tragic about Van Zandt ...

Swoon over Bronte's Byronic hero Heathcliff, Homer's fearsome Achilles, and charismatic rebels like Catch-22's Yossarian, revel in the inappropriate allure of intelligent killers like Dostoevsky's ...