The world of the Alien movie franchise is rich with moral dilemmas and societal implications and the new book Alien and Philosophy explores most, if not all, of them with an engaging combination of humor, history, philosophical concepts, and questions left unanswered.
Read MoreIn Space, Can Anyone Hear Your Philosophy?: A Look at Alien and Philosophy with Editor/Contributor Jeffrey EwingA 100 issue retrospective with our editors and authors.
Read MoreApex Magazine at 100: An IntrospectiveThis month's reviews are of stories about assumptions, perceptions, and characters who are more than they seem beneath the surface of their skin.
Read MoreWords for Thought #15An interview with KT Bryski.
Read MoreInterview with K.T. Bryski author of “The Love it Bears Fair Maidens”Indigenous and other minoritized writers have often had to take on the task of challenging stereotypes and misrepresentations, to offer our stories as imaginative and humanizing interventions against the dehumanizing projections of those in power.
Read MoreIndigenous Wonderworks and the Settler-Colonial ImaginaryReviews of stories about isolation, people cut off from society and humanity
Read MoreWords for Thought #14Writers like to play around with the concept of evil, don’t we? Think of some of the great antagonists: Sauron and Voldermort in their quests for total power and dominance; the criminal mastermind of Professor Moriarty; even the endless hunger and carnage of Benchley’s Jaws. Most definitions of the word evil state immorality and wickedness as the main concepts. But is it for the writer to deem if a character is wicked … or the reader?
Read MoreEntities of Modern EvilI don’t remember the first time I caught my mother in a lie. There are years and enough broken truth to construct something that used to look like my life in between then and now. I think about the girl child I was often.
Read MoreMothers Who ConsumeThis month's reviews are stories of families by choice, and families by blood - losing them, finding them, and trying to understand them.
Read MoreWords for Thought #13