How a 1960s Literary Trend Brought Us The Hunger Games
As Katniss  Co. get ready to storm movie theaters this weekend with Mockingjay, the latest installment in The Hunger Games series, it may seem like a foregone conclusion that futuristic teenagers will have to battle an oppressive dystopian regime alongside their crushes. But it wasn't always that way. As TIME's Lev Grossman wrote back in 2012 while exploring the history of the teen romance-dystopia genre in books and movies, until the 1960s  notably, with the release of the Tripod series by Christopher Samuel Youd  dystopia wasn't for teenagers. Books like 1984 and Brave New World are seen as classics of grown-up literature during the last 50 years, their analogues have usually been meant for teenagers. But that doesn't mean that the genre hasn't changed further during that half-century, Read the full article here Love Among the Ruins