All That is Solid Melts Into Air: A Review of Stories are Weapons Several significant flaws prevent this book from being a useful treatise on the American culture wars.
The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex.
Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel βThe idea gradually dawned on me that all these people β men or women β were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.β
Building Our Own Palace of Dreams: The 1981 Novel that Envisioned the Modern Surveillance State A novel that stands above 1984 and Brave New World in prescience.
Lore Done Right: Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds Lore becomes more powerful when there's less of it.
Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point.
Interpreting the Abyss: An Ode to Christopher Manson’s MAZE The labyrinth inside an 80s puzzle book will never be solved, never die, and never let go of its victims.