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‘The Best Japanese Short Stories’: Hauntingly Splendid

April 26, 2023May 2, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Fumiko Hayashi, Gishu Nakayama, Morio Kita, Riichi Yokumitsu, The Best Japanese Short Stories

New collection captures the tensions of a society in flux

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After the AI Apocalypse

April 25, 2023May 2, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Alex Garland, Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, Natalie Portman, Vennis Underground

The re-release of Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, ‘Veniss Underground,’ comes at a strangely appropriate time

FILM Young Adult

How Well Do You Know ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’?

April 18, 2023April 20, 2023 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Judy Blume

You must, you must, you must take our quiz ahead of the movie

FICTION FILM

The ‘Beautiful Disaster’ Movie Has Lit Twit Incensed

April 11, 2023April 18, 2023 Katie Smith 3 Comments Beautiful Disaster, Jamie McGuire

Conservative Wattpad romance author Jamie McGuire is the bane of the Internet

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Shard Times

April 5, 2023April 10, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, The Shards

The early 1980s of Bret Easton Ellis’s doorstopper novel hauntingly evoke pathologies of the present

FICTION Politics

The Censor Crack’d

March 28, 2023April 3, 2023 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Agatha Christie, And Then There were None, Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, The Mousetrap

When it comes to bowdlerizing Agatha Christie, it’s not hard to figure out whodunnit

CREATORS FICTION TELEVISION Writers

Macondon’t

March 22, 2023March 29, 2023 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Macondo, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Satanic Verses, Ulysses

Ready or not, here comes the “magical” Netflix adaption of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

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A Glorious Romp in Ye Olde Arabian Seas

March 21, 2023June 7, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

‘The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi’ by Shannon Chakraborty

CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers

Memories of Reading John Jakes

March 20, 2023 Neal Pollack 4 Comments James Michener, John Jakes, North and South, The Bastard, Tom Bosley

The works of the pop-history writer, who died last week at age 90, were my first foray into “grownup” fiction

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Hemon Not on Hemon

March 6, 2023March 7, 2023 Jim Arndorfer 0 Comments Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds

In ‘The World and All It Holds’, Aleksandar Hemon broadens his literary gaze into history

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You Only Edit Twice

February 28, 2023March 2, 2023 Jamie Mason 2 Comments Ian Fleming, James Bond, Live and Let Die, Roald Dahl, You Only Live Twice

If you rewrite a super spy to avoid retrograde racist attitudes, are you throwing out the Bond with the bathwater?

FICTION TELEVISION

The Year of ‘Three Body Problem’ TV

February 21, 2023March 7, 2023 William Schwartz 1 Comment Liu Cixin, The Expanse, The Three Body Problem, Three-Body

Several adaptations of the modern Chinese sci-fi classic have arrived

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The Night SHE Came Home

February 21, 2023February 24, 2023 Jake Harris 1 Comment Don't Fear the Reaper, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones’ ‘Dont Fear the Reaper’ is a new slasher classic

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

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So Far Away, So Close

January 31, 2023February 2, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, The Terraformers

In Annalee Newitz’s sci-fi novel ‘The Terraformers,’ familiar problems emerge on a distant rock in the far distant future