The Hunger Games Prequel, Songbirds, Is a Satire on the Ruling Class

The Hunger Games series was a popular sensation after the release of the first novel in 2008 and the film adaptation that followed four years later. The work of Suzanne Collins rapidly became a touchstone for twenty-first-century dystopian fiction. Much like The Matrix and Mad Max, the title itself has become a kind of shorthand […]

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