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Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland; The Love Makers by Aifric Campbell; The Second Shooter by Nick Mamatas; Dead Relatives by Lucie McKnight Hardy; and Under the […]

Poets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling t […]

The American YA author on discovering Stephen King, growing into Toni Morrison – and the perfect novelMy earliest reading memoryI remember Maurice Sendak’s Whe […]

The comic novelist takes aim at the industry’s elitism, but his story of a farcical literary festival is dated – and overly focused on Will SelfFunny ha-ha is tri […]

The jailed activist’s writings, some of them smuggled out of his cell, keep the spirit of the 2011 revolution aliveIn early 2011, a generation of Egyptians took t […]

He pays his 100 guineas. That’s £105 for the curious.

Lots. In fact people who found it scary as children seem to be in the minority. Most of the people who encountered it as children I’ve talked to read it as an a […]

I can do better than that. The Centipede Press edition of Lafferty stories called The Man Who Never Was contains that 40 year old interview. The Man Who Never Was

I have many tasks and responsibilities, but policing other people’s fannish headspaces is definitely not one of them.

I’m researching personal cloud solutions retweet/reblog/reply with suggestions you think I should check out.This is a quick post to say that I am researching […]

thatbadadvice:Help! I’m Making A Weirdly Big Deal Out Of A Thing That I Think Is No Big Deal So Why Does It Have To Be Such A Big Deal, It’s Honestly Not That Big […]

thatbadadvice:Help! A Teen Disagrees With Me!Dear Abby, 23 September 2021:DEAR ABBY: I am cleaning out my closet and have decided to sell my wedding dress from 21 […]

thatbadadvice:Help! My Employee Thinks She Deserves Pay In Exchange For Labor!Ask A Manager, 19 October 2021:I’m not comfortable with one of my new staff members a […]

An undercover police officer romances a climate activist in a lovingly evoked examination of the 90s protest sceneIt’s hard for a novelist to add twists or drama t […]

Fear Death By Water by Arkady Martine in The Deadlands “Here’s the trick. For a ritual to work, everyone involved has to believe it’s real.” Yllia, imperat […]

This gloriously gothic debut, set around an act of violence in the American west, demonstrates aesthetic fearlessness and real intellectual heft Robin McLean’s f […]

Friends Forever. Shannon Hale. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. 2021. [August] 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: And this year…I was an eighth grader. Premis […]

Hip-hop, Bowie and I Love Dick are among the cultural artefacts covered in this splendidly readable surveyFor the past half-century, postmodernist thinkers have […]

Lore And Disorder An anthology of folk fiction stories, taking folk in a broad sense and fiction in an even broader. To pick some highlights: George Sandison’s The […]

The Nobel laureate’s visionary epic about 18th-century religious leader Jacob Frank takes on the biggest philosophical themes During the 18th century, in the b […]

Reading charity pays tribute to ‘incredible words’ of Afro-Guyanese author, who came to Britain in 1977 where he has become a staple of English lessonsThe Afr […]

The author of Grass works another miracle with this semi-autobiographical tale of a family separated by conflictThanks to the pandemic, most of us now know what […]