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Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker 23 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
Over at Strange Horizons, I review Helene Wecker's debut The Golem and the Jinni, in which the titular magical creatures meet in early 20th century New York. Though there are aspects of the novel tha...
History, Repeated: Two Views on The Wars of the Roses 20 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
We all know that history is written by the victors, but the matter doesn't end there. History is also written by the powerful, the educated, the privileged. By people who toe--and sometimes the ones...
Recent Reading Roundup 34 29 Jul 2013 | 01:38 am
I'm not sure why, but the floodgates appear to have opened. After more than a year of struggling with my reading, I've found myself doing nothing but. I'm not that interested in examining the situatio...
Review: Big Mama Stories by Eleanor Arnason 26 Jul 2013 | 01:46 pm
My review of Eleanor Arnason's new collection Big Mama Stories appears today at Strange Horizons. I've been a fan of Arnason's short fiction for more than a decade, since reading "Knapsack Poems"--st...
Surface Tension: Thoughts on Hannibal's First Season 29 Jun 2013 | 01:57 am
The first time I read Thomas Harris's Red Dragon was more than fifteen years ago, in the white heat of having discovered and been wowed by its more famous sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. Standing i...
Star Trek Into Darkness 18 Jun 2013 | 01:32 am
It's only the middle of June, but if there is, this year, another moment of unintentional comedy as richly hilarious as the putative climax of J.J. Abrams's Star Trek Into Darkness, I will be very sur...
Watson, I Need You: Thoughts on Elementary's First Season 24 May 2013 | 08:29 pm
A week or so ago, the US broadcast networks announced their lineup of new and returning shows for the fall of 2013, and since then the internet's premier TV sites have been abuzz with a flurry of anal...
Recent Reading Roundup 33 21 May 2013 | 07:21 pm
The last recent reading roundup chronicled several months of slow reading. This one covers several weeks of fast reading (a period that also included the Clarke shortlist, reviewed elsewhere). There...
The (Belated) Pilots of Spring 13 May 2013 | 05:33 pm
The original plan was for this post to go up a month or so ago, when all of these shows were really at the pilot phase or just a bit after it. But with one thing and another, here we are already at s...
Crooked Timber Seminar on Felix Gilman's Half-Made World Books 10 May 2013 | 12:50 am
If you haven't yet discovered the group blog Crooked Timber's book seminars, in which several participants are invited to write essays about a certain book, you're in for a treat. Previous seminar su...
