There’s a cultural hangover happening right now, and fiction with depth is rising in response.

After years of bite-sized content, bingeable shows, and endlessly scrolling feeds, something’s shifting. Readers are tired. Not just of the noise, but of stories that don’t mean anything. Shallow characters. Predictable arcs. Worlds built to distract, not to wake us up.

We used to turn to fiction to escape. Now, more and more of us are turning to it for clarity. For truth. For something real....