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Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert
Worlds in Stone: The Rock Books of Richard Sharpe Shaver
Aaron Labaree excavates Richard Sharpe Shaver’s “Some Stones Are Ancient Books.”
Chortling Smugly and Rolling Their Eyes
Christian Kriticos considers Louis Sachar’s “The Magician of Tiger Castle,” the children’s author’s “first novel for adults.”
Revolution of Our Times
Graham J. Murphy considers Badiucao and Melissa Chan’s “You Must Take Part in Revolution.”
Poland as a State of Mind
Agnieszka Dale considers Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s new anthology “The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories.”
Expanding the End of the World
Erin Giannini reviews “The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand,’” edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene.
One Microbe, One Vote?
Carl Abbott dives into Joan Slonczewski’s “Minds in Transit.”
The Heart Is a Lonely Haunter
Chelsea Davis hangs out with dead people in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching.”
Storytelling as Reparative Act
Bernabé S. Mendoza examines Nnedi Okorafor’s “Death of the Author.”
Reactionary Futurism 2025
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
The Astronomy of Melancholy
Arnaud Gerspacher considers “Sad Planets” by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker.
There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism
David Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.
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