Hugo

    This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.In narrative science fiction, there is no higher honor than earning a Hugo Award or Nebula Award—unless...

    One of the biggest novels in recent years is officially headed to Netflix. On Thursday, it was announced that the streaming service will be adapting The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo into a feature film, with Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere, Li...

    Glass speaks to British actor Asa Butterfield on how he got into acting as a child, how he stayed grounded and his hit Netflix series, Sex EducationIt was an overcast Tuesday afternoon in London when I picked up the phone to Asa Butterfield and in a...

    “Some said that outside the borders of the State there were other web sites, but those were only urban legends.”—Ma Boyong, “The City Of Silence”“The machines pretty much ran on their own, and there were very few workers. At night, when the wor...

    With the passing of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, it would be very easy to claim that the world has lost a polarizing figure. At the rate we are manufacturing such figures, however, we are not sure that it would be true.As a committed socialist a...

    Wikimedia CommonsFrench novelist Victor Hugo is best known for writing Les Misérables, the sweeping story of wrongly-accused fugitive Jean Valjean, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, which he probably couldn't guess would one day become an animated Di...

    embed.spotify.comThe BuzzFeed Book Club spent April reading Gabriela Garcia's debut novel, Of Women and Salt — a poignant story following multiple generations of Cuban and Cuban American women as they grapple with grief, addiction, and intergenerati...

    Illustration: Facundo Percio and Diego ArandojoBeatnik Buenos Aires is a curious book,essentially a supplementary text to a Spanish-language documentary about 1960s Argentinean artists that is not readily available in English. And as inaccessible to...

    Wikimedia CommonsFrench novelist Victor Hugo is best known for writing Les Misérables, the sweeping story of wrongly-accused fugitive Jean Valjean, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, which he probably couldn't guess would one day become an animated Di...

    GLASS presents Jelly on a Plate – a beauty story by photographer Heather Favell, Glass beauty director Kim Brown and art director Liz Sheppard. Delicious visions and motion captured on Super 8 in the technicolour 1970’s jelly dream by Heather Favel...

    FOLLOWING on from last year’s glittering collaboration with Yoon Ahn, creative director of Ambush, Bulgari has enlisted London-based Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou to reinterpret the House’s Serpenti Forever in a limited-edition capsule col...