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A Child Makes a Future, and What Future Had We?
Carol Senf reviews Kathe Koja’s “Catherine the Ghost.”
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert
The Poetic Origins of Middle-earth
Christian Kriticos reviews “The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien.”
Jonathan Carroll’s Impossible Realism
Gary K. Wolfe surveys the career of American fabulist Jonathan Carroll, whose backlist is currently being re-released by JABberwocky eBooks.
A Moment of Doubt, or Nearly So
Zachary Gillan reviews Brian Evenson’s new collection “Good Night, Sleep Tight.”
Weird Nonfiction
Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream
Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
I … Am Herman Melville!
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
Exhuming a Historical Myth
Minsoo Kang examines the persistence of Korean nationalism in the South Korean horror thriller “Exhuma,” directed by Jang Jae-hyun.
What Water Teaches Us
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s “Lost Ark Dreaming.”
Waiting in Null Space
Dan Hartland reviews Christopher Priest’s “Airside.”
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