Lev Grossman’s Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians
Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school.
Lore Done Right: Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds
Lore becomes more powerful when there's less of it.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and ChatGPT: How Snobbery Can Save Us From the Literary Robot Apocalypse
Readers, critics, and editors have to demand better.
Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations
Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point.
Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City
In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength.
Concerning Habits: Purpose In Fiction and How to Defy It
I feel a pang when I reach the end of The Lord of the Rings because it means I must wake.
Finding Space for the “Literary” in Fantasy: A Reflection on A Woman of the Sword
A trend-defying novel about the "wrong" character told the "wrong" way.