Colin Winnette and Jeremy M. Davies each have a new novel featuring an unreliable narrator: Winnette's Coyote follows a possibly unhinged mother and Davies's Fancy is about a man looking for a ...

I’ve always had something of a love/hate relationship with the unreliable narrators of literature. You know who I’m talking about: the Humbert Humberts and Patrick Batemans, Holden Caulfields and Mrs.

There's a particular kind of unease that comes from reading a story and slowly realizing the person guiding you through it may be lying. Not to the other characters. To you. These narrators lack ...

What's more fun in a movie or a show than an unreliable narrator? They disrupt the suspension of disbelief that entertainment's all about, causing you to question yourself for being so easily duped ...

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“Oh my God. Sorry. Gosh. I just can’t believe it actually happened.” This is an omniscient narrator speaking. Jane the Virgin’s Latin Lover Narrator (yes, that is how he is credited) has just ...

You're happily watching a movie, taking everything at face value, having a perfectly nice time, and then Bam! The rug is pulled out from under you. The unreliable narrator is a classic movie trope, ...

This week, William Hughes stopped by with an On The Level in praise of 2013’s Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine and the way it directly involved players in the slow reveal of its big crime-caper twist.

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Now, over 20 years after it first ...