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3D illustration of the structure of a coronavirus.
In the crucible of catastrophe, we learn deeper truths about love, loyalty, and compassion.
Read moreWatchmen and Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant have more in common than you might think.
Read moreRulers have been trying to repress knowledge since at least 213 BC. “Killing the Scholars and Burning the Books,” Anonymous, 18th century Chinese painted album leaf; Bibliothèque nationale Paris [Public domain]
Big corporations are destroying your books without explanation, probably because hosting the platform isn’t as profitable as expected.
Read moreC.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.
Read moreCadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.
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As we crack the cover on 2019 and dig into the books on our resolution reading lists, Christie and Meghan take a look at what makes a great opening.
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Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), Black Snake Memory, 2018. Oil paint on canvas; 60 x 84 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery.
Artist Julie Buffalohead creates narrative images layered with personal meaning, while she invites the viewer in, leaving of room for the mysterious.
Image: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), A Little Medicine and Magic, 2018. Oil on canvas; 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery. Image courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery
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Samantha Hunt, Haunting of Hill House promotional poster, Theodore McCombs
Parenting is risky business, more so when ghosts take an uninvited co-parenting role.
Read moreWriter Gabino Iglesias’ new book Coyote Songs hit book stores this week. Check out this interview for ideas about writing, the horror of murder and living interstitially.
Read moreIn the world of Japanese anime you can slip from the ordinary to the magical at any moment.
Read moreFiction Unbound’s Gemma Webster chats with UK writer Priya Sharma.
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Zora Neale Hurston, pear blossoms, William Gay, Everglades gator
Head into the swamps with some fallen families and wild grotesques in Part 2 of our Southern Gothic extravaganza.
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Eudora Welty, trees in the White River, Tania James, and a mural in Prescott, Arkansas (not-so-accidentally chosen because it's the hometown of Amanda's grandma)
An exploration of Southern Gothic speculative literature.
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River Tam, not using her words in Firefly.
Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts.
Read moreIn honor of Ishiguro's Nobel lecture last night, we revisit our woolly musings on 2015's The Buried Giant.
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Everybody loves SF/F adaptations these days. We'd like to see these.
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What do Logan, the noir-Western superhero film featuring the classic brooding antihero of the X-Men, and Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir by J.D. Vance, have in common? Put on some Jonny Cash, pour yourself a bourbon and let's talk.
Read moreAn Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.
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Steven Millhauser's short story "Phantoms” invites readers to consider the phantoms that haunt them. Jon considers his phantoms and how they expose his complicity in perpetuating prejudice against trans people.
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Five apsaras, heavenly spirits of the clouds and the waters, from the walls of Angkor Wat. Photo by Lisa Mahoney. 2017
At the cultural crossroads of Cambodian folklore, belief and speculative literature, with emerging author Kay Chronister
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