It might sound strange, but many people feel stronger emotional connections to fictional characters than to people in their everyday lives. Whether it’s the quiet vulnerability of Shinji Ikari from ...

In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Old, Boring, White and Mean: How Professors Appear on the Small Screen," the author Jenny Rodgers proposes that most fictional television ...

Some stories don’t stay on the page or the screen. They slip into our language, influence our playlists and sneak into our conversations with friends as if they’re real people. Fictional characters ...