Lauren Groff was early on considered a promising writer. Currently, one can hardly find a person who would doubt as to whether she has a talent or not. Her first novel reached a status of bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Its review was...

Curious thing about the genre of fiction known as Southern Gothic: not much of it takes place in definitely the most southern and arguably the most gothic of Dixie. Of course, there is no argument that geographically, Florida is the deepest one...

Matrix is a novel set in the 12th century England and follows a young french royal, cast away Marie, who was banished to become a prioress of an abbey with nuns in rural England. The reasoning behind this is because Marie is deemed unfit for...

Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds (2023) tells the story of an unnamed "servant girl" who lives in an isolated colonial settlement that has been plagued by disease and famine in the middle of the 17th-century New England wilderness. For her—and for...