Nonfiction
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Review: Harmattan Season
More than being a crossover of detective mystery, postcolonial work, and urban fantasy, Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi is a journey through a dark tunnel of unyielding stone and depths that are no longer safe to plumb.
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Review: Black Flame
To say that I was highly anticipating Black Flame would be a colossal understatement, and it absolutely did not disappoint. I am an avid consumer of queer horror, especially in literary form, and this was almost too perfect for me.
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Review: The Incandescent
While it’s been lauded as the next Scholomance (an excellent series, by the way), Tesh’s latest book is quite different. This is a book for grown-ups.
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Topaz Crystal, from Surrender of Man
What I’m trying to suggest is that this spillage of the specters wandering my mind might deflate my experience of them. Then they will die and rot within me. But any piece of writing is hope.
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Interview: Grace Curtis
“Something I don’t enjoy in stories is a feeling of unearned intimacy. I want to take my time falling for a character.”
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Interview: Chuck Tingle
Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy.
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Review: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice
The Immortal Choir is a novella of the post-Trump-re-election world. In each story, the focus is never on defeating the monster, but on getting out.
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Interview: Mike Duncan
Mike Duncan is one of the most popular history podcasters in the world and author of the New York Times–bestselling book, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. His award-winning series, The History of Rome, remains a legendary landmark in the history of…
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Review: Terrestrial History
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a painfully beautiful story inspired by a hard reflection on our current fears and anxieties regarding climate catastrophes and the survival of the human race.
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Interview: Sarah Gailey
Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award-winning and bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays.
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Interview: Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler is the author of the critically acclaimed, Locus Award winning novel The Mountain in the Sea.
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REVIEW | “The Time for Doing Is Always Now”: Reading Where the Axe Is Buried in Unprecedented Times
Revolution truly succeeds only if we are unafraid to rip out the roots and start again.