Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman, and the Horror of False Freedom
The real tragedy is believing yourself free when freedom is impossible.
Sworn Brothers: The Connection Between Theater and Gaming
Games have been adapted to film, but are they meant for theater?
Lev Grossman’s Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians
Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school.
An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness
On dismal failure and death drives.
Claire Keegan and the Value of Waiting a Long Time for Something Short
What we lose when we value production over precision.
Forget Edgar Allen Poe, What About Wilkie Collins? A Tribute to the Forgotten Father of the Detective Novel
With 27 novels, more than 50 short stories and 15 plays, it’s time that Collins started to get the credit he deserved.
Ritual & Responsibility: Subversion in The Wasp Factory and We Have Always Lived in the Castle
There is nothing so commanding, right, or natural in the powers that be that a child cannot toss them aside.
Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance
The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction.
Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods
Is modern science fiction's indulging in escapism rationalizing our own complicities?