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....
The Final Treasure from the Tolkien Hoard
Christopher Tolkien wraps up a four-decade curation of his father’s legacy....
Temporal Turmoil: The Time Travel Stories of Robert Silverberg
A Grand Master curates his finest time travel stories....
The Deified Totality of the True: On Ben H. Winters’s “Golden State”
Glenn Harper reviews “Golden State” by Ben H. Winters....
Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s “Gingerbread”
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails....
More Than the Belgian Poe: The Overdue Return of Jean Ray’s “Whiskey Tales”
Jean Ray is canny in his writing of the uncanny — he is aware of the pitfalls of the genre and almost always manages to avoid hyperbolic verbosity....
Speculating on the Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain developers often invoke sci-fi to describe the technology, but science fiction has been slow to explore blockchain with a few exceptions....
An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality
Award-winning science fiction writer Nick Harkaway discusses his novel “Gnomon,” the relationship between technology and society, and his creative process....
Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On “The Human Reimagined”
Aaron Winslow is stimulated by “The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia,” an “essential volume” edited by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt....
The Intangible Thing That Makes Us Human
Gabino Iglesias reviews “Foe,” the latest novel by Iain Reid....
Pasadena on Her Mind: Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Her Hometown
The ways Octavia Butler depicted Pasadena offer a window into her own thinking, but also into the power of race and class in the city that shaped that life....
