It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf
Starve Acre. Andrew Michael Hurley. 2018. Horror is full, of course, of terrible things happening to children. It’s frightening to be a child, as everyone »
Being a Good Feminist and Other Impossible Tasks
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. Amia Srinivasan. 2021. What is feminism? We just don’t know. I mean we really don’t »
Haunted Places in a Haunted Country
The Reformatory. Tananarive Due. 2023. Some places are haunted, and I think on some level we all believe that. Americans did not invent the idea of »
We Forget Stories in Order to Live
The Buried Giant. Kazuo Ishiguro. 2015. This might be the saddest novel I’ve ever read, excluding of course the other novels by Kazuo Ishiguro. They’ »
Good Old Fashioned Science Fiction
Untouched by Human Hands. Robert Sheckley. 1954. I don’t usually care for this era of sci-fi, the one right before the new age that gave »