‘The Black Orb’ Hovers Over North America
South Korea’s bestselling sci-fi novel of the last 20 years has arrived to terrify English-language readers
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FICTION
Eulogy For a Jester: The End of Tom Robbins
A champion of literary playfulness, dead at 92
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Something in ‘The Watermark’
Maybe a little too much storytelling in the second metafictional novel from British author Sam Mills
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BookTok-Inspired Austen Covers Flop with Fans Online
It’s too late to make a ‘First Impression’
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Surprise: The ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ TV Adaptation Is Magically Great
A Latino skeptic, from the land of magical realism, converted
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Nnedi Okorafor Gets Real
‘The Death of the Author’, from a prize-winning author, mixes autobiography with sci-fi
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‘Carry-On’ and the Birth of the TSA Thriller
If only publishers had realized the genre’s potential when I wrote my own TSA thriller several years ago
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The John le Carré Universe Continues in ‘Karla’s Choice’ Even Though le Carré is Dead
Fortunately, his son, Nick Harkaway, is also an excellent spy novelist
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Disney Wants To Gender-Flip Your ‘Holes’
Is this project for kids, or for nostalgic millennial parents?
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Joyce Carol Oates Has Still Got It
The 86-year-old author’s collection Flint Kill Creek serves up timely and powerful narratives of desperation and struggle
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The Online Odyssey of ‘The Odyssey’
An announced Christopher Nolan film adaption unleashes a torrent of ridiculous debate on social media
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My Favorite Books of 2024
Everyone has their lists. Most of those lists look suspiciously like Barack Obama’s. This one’s a little different.
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Not The Year In SF
With AI and space travel an actual reality, it’s hard to find the unexpected in science fiction. But there were still some highlights.
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2024: The Year In Censorship
From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events
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At Last, ‘The Last Dangerous Visions’
Harlan Ellison pulls off his greatest trick, editing a sci-fi anthology even though he’s been dead for nearly seven years.
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