Nonfiction
Dialog, Patois: If It’s Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It’s Good Enough For You
Tonya Liburd dives into why patois is praised in some novels and disparaged in others.
Tonya Liburd
July 30, 2021
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction
Over the next few years I would come to realize that science fiction and fantasy were uniquely festooned with such checklists, tabulations, indexes, enumerations, catalogs,
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
July 15, 2021
Nonfiction
Sex Is Great, But Have You Ever Seen Your Real-Life Relationship Depicted in Fiction?
Does every plot require a romantic angle? Nicole Kornher-Stace examines why so many unnecessary relationships are shoehorned into stories.
Nicole Kornher-Stace
June 11, 2021
Nonfiction
The Enduring Ensorcellment of King Arthur
Oddly, the one character who absolutely bores me? Merlin. Whether depicted as a real wizard, a Druid, a mystic, or simply a man with more
Alex Bledsoe
May 13, 2021
Nonfiction
Telling Stories of Ghosts
I spent three or four years giving every dead creature I found in our yard or along our narrow country road a proper burial. Instead
Wendy N. Wagner
April 13, 2021
Nonfiction
Jimi Hendrix Sang It
Until only recently, the World Fantasy Award, both the winner’s trophy and the nomination pins, were a bust of the author H.P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips
ZZ Claybourne
April 1, 2021
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