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Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue
Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert
You Can Go Home Again, and Again, and Again
Cory Oldweiler reviews the new translation of Danish author Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III).”
What’s the Difference Between a God and a Monster?
Heather Macumber reviews Brandon Grafius’s “Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture.”
Strange New Lows
Adam Kotsko boldly goes into season three of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” with high expectations.
The Baby Was Screaming
Tia Glista examines the pro-child paranoia that fuels FX’s new series “Alien: Earth.”
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
Enuf Is Enuf
Tom LeClair clop-clops through Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel “Tom’s Crossing.”
Challenging the Myth of Firstness
John Rieder explores Zac Zimmer’s “First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas.”
The Ghosts of the Delivery Room
Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern’s “Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.”
Parading Around Among the Living Like Nothing Happened
Zachary Gillan explores Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories,” translated by Megan McDowell.
I’m Gonna Act as Though What Seems Real Is
Raphael Helfand speaks with David Leo Rice about his new novel “The Squimbop Condition.”
Lost Horizons
Brendan Boyle writes on the voyages beyond in “Contact” (1997) and “Alambrista!” (1977), in the newest installment of Double Feature, from the LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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