The Wide, Forbidding Cosmos: The Weird Fiction of John Langan
John Langan’s latest collection of weird fiction is a fresh waypoint, if not a landmark, in his creative journey....
Parallel Deterioration: On Brian Evenson’s “Song for the Unraveling of the World”
In “Song for the Unraveling of the World,” Brian Evenson renders the world as a place of infinite and paralyzing delusion....
Navigating the Dark Corners: Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories”
Claire Kim looks at the alluring, dark tales in Karen Russell’s new short story collection, “Orange World and Other Stories.”...
The Warmth of “New Suns”
John Rieder reviews "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color," edited by Nisi Shawl....
Disney’s Endgame: Corporate Stockholm Syndrome in the Age of the Mega-Franchise
While we crave traditional components like complexity, spectacle, and closure, we experience those things only as an endless flow of branded content....
The Technologies That Remake Us: On Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation: Stories”
“Exhalation: Stories” is a stunning achievement in speculative fiction, from an author whose star will only continue to rise....
Voices Against the Wall: The Hilarious Terror of Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories”
Ryan Smernoff appreciates the many gems of Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories.”...
De-Melanization Procedure: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Joselyn Takacs talks with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin about his new novel, "We Cast a Shadow."...
Futuristic Technology of an Alternate Past: Ian McEwan’s “Machines Like Me”
McEwan seems ultimately to have wanted to write a science fiction novel, but he couches it in his old historical upholstery....
A Fiction of Miracles: On Michael Bishop’s “Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories”
The miracles never cease in Michael Bishop’s “Other Arms Reach Out to Me: Georgia Stories.”...
But That Is Not the Story: On Marlon James’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf”
Understanding Marlon James’s fiction requires reading in a fantastical mode rather than a realist one....
Strange Details Accrete: Marian Womack’s Weird Tales of Slow Catastrophe
In Marian Womack’s collection “Lost Objects,” climatic change is not figured as dramatic upheaval, but slow creep....
