Speculative fiction author Robert Jackson Bennett makes his first foray into mystery novels with The Tainted Cup, a top-notch police procedural set in an unnamed world little like our own. On this ...
Read ReviewA Brief History of the Police Procedural
As most will know, a mystery novel is one that starts off with a conundrum – someone has been killed, something or someone has gone missing – and proceeds along a logical path until ...
Read Article"Was remembered agony better than feeling nothing at all?" This open question from protagonist Laura Iven is at the epicenter of Katherine Arden's war-torn The Warm Hands of Ghosts.
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Canadian Nurses in World War I
Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts, in addition to focusing on the violence and trauma of the World War I trenches, is also about the female nurses who treated wounded soldiers. ...
Read ArticleSomewhere Ray Bradbury is smiling. With this beautiful and brutal collection, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, Liliana Colanzi cements her well-deserved place in the world of dystopian ...
Read ReviewIn the title story of You Glow in the Dark, scrap metal scavengers uncover a strange glowing capsule in the ruins of an abandoned hospital. Dazzled by the beautiful blue particles that glow in the...
Read ArticleThe world has become a frozen wasteland and sixteen-year-old Jeon Chobahm's only relief from the bitter cold comes in the form of her favorite reality show, Goh Around, which focuses on the daily life...
Read ReviewFan Culture and Parasocial Relationships
For those living in the dystopian world of Soyoung Park's Snowglobe, the main source of entertainment is reality television shot within a climate-controlled dome. The lives of the actors on these ...
Read ArticleLet me confess that I don't watch a lot of spy movies or read spy novels because the plots are too much to keep up with. Please consider that information an extra endorsement for Ilium by Lea ...
Read ReviewIn Lea Carpenter's Ilium, some of the spies have escape and evasion maps. Also known as escape maps or silk maps, these are scarves imprinted with maps that intelligence officers and soldiers have ...
Read ArticleFrancesca Peacock's debut, Pure Wit, is a captivating and well-researched biography of a woman whose contributions to literary history have largely been ignored. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of ...
Read ReviewMargaret Cavendish and Vitalist Materialism
In her biography of 17th-century author Margaret Cavendish, Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines light on often-overlooked aspects of Cavendish's life and work, including her contributions to ...
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