Neuroscientist Patrick House reviews two new books on the art of repetition in video games—“Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games,” edited by Carmen Machado and J. Robert Lennon, and “The Beauty of Games” by Frank Lantz....
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “Drinking from Graveyard Wells.”...
Kevin Koczwara chats with Sammy Harkham about his grindhouse-inspired new graphic novel “Blood of the Virgin,” the burdens of balancing family life with art, and making meaning through storytelling while remaining unpredictable....
Melanie A Marotta reviews Tananarive Due’s “The Reformatory.”...
Patrick Fiorilli reviews Plastiboo’s “Vermis,” a strategy guide to a video game that doesn’t exist....
Brandon R. Grafius reviews Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work.”...
Melissa Ridley Elmes reviews Chuck Wendig’s “Black River Orchard.”...
Julia Lindsay reviews Joy Sanchez-Taylor’s “Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color.”...
Claire Jarvis talks with Yael Goldstein-Love about her new novel “The Possibilities.”...
Salem James Martinez reviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars.”...
Niall Harrison reviews the 2023 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award....
Sasha Karsavina reviews Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World and The Poison Belt” from the MIT Press Radium Age series....
Christian P. Haines reviews "The Terraformers" by Analee Newitz....
Taryne Jade Taylor reviews E. G. Condé’s “Sordidez.”...
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction genre not yet having congealed....
Martin Dolan reviews the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” as a work of ecofiction....
J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives....
Kurt David reviews Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot series, “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” and “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”...
Roger Luckhurst reviews M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir.”...
David M. Higgins reviews Ann Leckie’s “Translation State.”...
Greg Cwik reviews “Pictures of Apocalypse” by Thomas Ligotti....
Sloane Holzer reviews Lee Mandelo’s “Feed Them Silence.”...
Shannon Scott reviews Erin E. Adams’s “Jackal.”...
Olivia Rutigliano follows the figure of Renfield from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel ‘Dracula’ through various adaptations, culminating in Chris McKay’s 2023 film “Renfield.”...
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