“Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same. We asked the creatives behind several series — totalitarian, postapocalyptic or both — to explain how they bring the term to ...

Ian McEwan's new novel, "What We Can Know," is a literary mystery set in a dystopian future. The story follows a scholar in the year 2119 searching for a lost poem from the 21st century. The novel ...