The Cost of War: Parts and Labor
Ahmed Saadawi’s novel “Frankenstein in Baghdad” continues to win prizes for good reason: it is one of the best fictional accounts of the Iraq War yet....
The Earth Strikes Back! Post-Thatcherite Neoliberalism in Ian McDonald’s “Luna: Wolf Moon”
“Luna: Wolf Moon” reminds us that space-utopianism based on imperial or neoliberal ideals will not escape the gravity well of such dystopian foundations....
Noir Turned on Its Side
Robert Allen Papinchak reviews “Noir” by Christopher Moore....
The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene, Part II: A Conversation with Jeff VanderMeer, Zaria Forman, and Gleb Raygorodetsky
Amy Brady of “Guernica” magazine presents the second conversation in the series “The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene.”...
Weird Ways of Seeing: Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Vision
Twenty-seven years after its publication, Patrick Nagatani’s “Nuclear Enchantment” still sees the lurking violence of the American nuclear project....
The Void Behind the Face of Order: Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories
A new collection of rare ghost stories by a British master of the form....
Recruitment, Ridicule, and Revolution in “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
Electrifying and entertaining, "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." uses rich characters and a gripping plot to make a well-researched, time-traveling adventure....
In the Year 11945 No One Really Dies Without a Reason: On “NieR: Automata”
Why are we so fascinated right now with technological utopias predicated on the rise of artificial intelligence?...
The Dark Forest and Its Discontents: Cixin Liu’s “Death’s End”
Peter Berard reviews the final book of Cixin Liu's "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" trilogy....
A New Hope, Ambiguously
There is a stately elegance to all the stories collected in Vandana Singh’s “Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories.”...
For the Purposes of Education as Well as Recreation: Historical Notes on “The Handmaid’s Tale (Special Edition)”
None of the adaptations of “The Handmaid’s Tale” have yet found themselves able to include the actual ending of the novel....
In the Habitations of Specters: On Stephen Graham Jones’s “Mapping the Interior”
Readers can feel confident following Stephen Graham Jones into the dark and obscure landscapes of his fiction....
