Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

More recently, there has been a trend of retelling the villains’ stories to explain and even justify their actions. Stories ...

Nikolai Zinoviev: No mutation needed, his greed and unpredictability make him a chilling adversary. Morgan Lansdale: A leader ...

But I got what I wanted and came away with a better understanding of Alyssa's background, as well as some potentially timely ...

As a science watcher, I never gave much mind to evil. Evolutionary biology isn’t about good and evil, just survival and reproduction. So it was a surprise to me when an evolutionary explanation for ...

We know there is a shadow side to us, to others, and to the world. Sometimes it manifests in evil actions. It is up to us to ...