Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” is at once a captivating and concerning work of literature. It is not my favorite book. In fact, when I first read it as my 7th-grade ...

Can an adaptation of a 65-year-old book feel too futuristic? That’s the dilemma that HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451” TV movie, directed and adapted by “99 Homes'” Ramin Bahrani, presents to us.

The latest such drama to plumb the depths of post-everything paranoia is HBO’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi classic “Fahrenheit 451.” The film, which premieres Saturday ...

Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451 opens with one of the most iconic opening lines to grace modern literature: "It was a pleasure to burn." The novel, fiery from the start, explores a dystopian ...

"It killed my heart and killed my soul," he says, "and the memory of Hitler burning the books caused me to sit down and write Fahrenheit 451." Bradbury's novel imagines a future where firemen don ...

The new version of Fahrenheit 451 has two Michaels, but not enough heat. Despite a classic American novel as inspiration and a marquee cast, including Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon and ...

He died June 5. Ray Bradbury, a boundlessly imaginative novelist who wrote some of the most popular science-fiction books of all time, including “Fahrenheit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles ...

Proving you can’t judge a book – or movie – by its cover, “Fahrenheit 451” turns out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts. Featuring the tantalizing tandem of Michael B.

When the HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 premieres on Saturday, the movie will introduce a contemporary twist to the centuries-long history of burning books — one in which ...

From our How To Do Everything podcast: Today, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was released as an e-book for the first time. If you're not familiar, it takes place in a dystopia where firemen burn ...