UNCOVERED: Sinclair lewis - The Untold Story

Readers reply: what have been the most prescient or accurate predictions of the future?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers the art of soothsaying, prognostication and futurism

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in which Nineteen Eighty-Four is set.

The Conversation · Jan 19

When a president goes rogue — in fiction

American novelists have often imagined presidents who seize power and defy the courts. Their lessons are sobering

Salon · May 17, 2025

Trump and white America's death wish

Donald Trump's superpower: He understands white America's impulse toward self-destruction — and mainlines it

Salon · Oct 28, 2022

Kevin McDermott: Authoritarianism is looming at home and abroad. But gas prices

Authoritarian movements are rising in democracies around the world, in ways not seen since the 1930s. And contrary to the title of a famous dystopian novel from that era, it can happen here. In lots of small ways, it’s already happening.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 26, 2022

The scariest town in Illinois does not exist. But you can visit in ‘Halloween Ends’

CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 14, 2022

Celebrate Babbitt’s 100th by reading ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Sinclair Lewis’ famed novel eclipsed by grim dystopian vision.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 13, 2022