By Eden Kupermintz Weirding the Periphery: How Imperialism Infiltrated Our Imagination Through Fantasy So much of foundational fantasy is about the (often imperial) core versus outside territories. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
By Christopher Luis-Jorge Pumping Gold: How a Decade of Bodybuilding and Terrorism Started a Wave of Cheap Fantasy Movies Politics, pulp fiction, and pumping iron. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
Books Lev Grossman's Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Lore Done Right: Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds Lore becomes more powerful when there's less of it. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fantasy Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and ChatGPT: How Snobbery Can Save Us From the Literary Robot Apocalypse Readers, critics, and editors have to demand better. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fantasy Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop's The Etched City In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fantasy 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. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fantasy 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. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
