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Odd, Weird, Scary: 12 Books to Read This Halloween Night
“What the ghost really needs,” Edith Wharton wrote in the preface to her collection of ghost stories, “is not echoing passages and hidden doors behind tapestry, but only silence and continuity.” Many...
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30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women
This week marks the release of Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, a novel that envisions a world in which evolution has begun to reverse itself and women to lose their autonomy. Of course,...
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Odd, Weird, Scary: 12 Books to Read This Halloween Night
“What the ghost really needs,” Edith Wharton wrote in the preface to her collection of ghost stories, “is not echoing passages and hidden doors behind tapestry, but only silence and continuity.” Many...
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30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women
This week marks the release of Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, a novel that envisions a world in which evolution has begun to reverse itself and women to lose their autonomy. Of course,...
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Read stories from Lauren Beukes and Nalo Hopkinson in this new ocean-themed...
To coincide with World Oceans Day, XPRIZE—which is a nonprofit organization that manages competitions to encourage technological innovation and “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity”—has...
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The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler
Tomorrow, June 22, would have been legendary SF novelist and short story writer Octavia Butler’s 72nd birthday. She died in 2006—much too young, at only 58—already a certified genius who had a profound...
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On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women
In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even...
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In Praise of Weird Literary Romances
Have you ever walked around on Valentine’s Day feeling like a mutant? The crinkly assault of Mylar heart-balloon clusters; the blood-red tunnel of Hallmark cards at Walgreens and CVS; the couples...
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Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic
Feature photo by William Anthony. Originally, The Lathe of Heaven appeared in two installments in Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine started in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. Ursula Le Guin, born in 1929, read...
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next
Brandi Wells’ unnamed protagonist sweeps, mops, wipes down, and disinfects an office while its daytime workers sleep. “I know them all,” The Cleaner tells us. “I’ve seen the grossest things about them,...
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