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Review of SFF literature, culture, power, speculation // Founded in 2020 to address radical possibilities of criticism
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Call for reviews & essays time, already: here's a few books we're interested in covering for May 2025! Send us a pitch if you're interested, and don't hesitate to pitch us an idea or a title that isn't listed here.
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The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
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A bit 11th hour, but: it occurs to us that ARB and A Meal of Thorns are eligible to be nominated for the #HugoAwards!.
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Header image from a photo by Olav Rokne for the Worldcon flickr stream Hello readers! If you are going to be nominating for this year’s Hugo Awards, please consider ARB’s work! The Ancillary Review…
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Adaptability and Sense of Self: @MishaGrifka interviews Mina Fears about THE SCORPION QUEEN, out this week from @Flatironbooks!.
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Misha Grifka Wander Mina Fears grew up in suburban Michigan and attended high school in Minneapolis. At the age of sixteen, she was accepted to Columbia University, where she earned her BA and MFA.…
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First link round-up of the year! ARB's "Wow! Signal" column brings together reviews, essays, and interviews from around (and beyond) the world of speculative criticism:.
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Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…
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The Marriage of Science and Nature: @alexyquest reviews Cristina Jurado's CHLOROPHILIA (@apexmag, translated by Sue Buke).
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Alex Kingsley Under Review:Chlorophilia. Cristina Jurado, translated by Sue Burke. Apex, January 2025. In an age when climate crisis appears inevitable, it no longer feels useful to ask, “what if a…
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Technopessimism, Whitman in space, and the corrective potential of leftist jocks: Hilary Strang of the @podcastonmars podcast joins us to talk Kim Stanley Robinson's AURORA on the latest episode of A Meal of Thorns!.
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Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Hilary StrangTitle: Aurora by Kim Stanley RobinsonHost: Jake…
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"Gualeni and Fassone seek to understand how games shape subjectivity, how games and ideology interact, and the possibilities for transformation that games afford." From the archives: @steinea reviews FICTIONAL GAMES (@BloomsburyAcad) .
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Eric Stein Under Review:Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play. Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone. Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Throughout the media we enjoy, fr…
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In the second installment of Like Perfume Behind Your Ears, Dylan Haston & Becca Schneid discuss poetry from Kaleidotrope, Strange Horizons, The Orange and Bee, Augur, and more:.
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Dylan Haston and Becca Schneid Welcome back to Like Perfume Behind Your Ears, a new monthly speculative poetry review column from Ancillary Review of Books, hosted by Dylan Haston and Becca Schneid…
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The Count's Successors: @superyarn on love and defiance in COUNTESS (@ecwpress) and FIRE BORN OF EXILE (@gollancz).
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Ursula Whitcher Alexandre Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo is a sprawling literary classic that includes elaborate revenge, a canonical lesbian, and enough Orientalism to power an expeditionary c…
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Dead Cities Rise: Sam Reader reviews Alex Pheby's WATERBLACK, out now from @torbooks!.
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Sam Reader Under Review:Waterblack. Alex Pheby. Tor, January 2025. As all things must come to an end, so with Waterblack must too the Cities of the Weft cycle. Alex Pheby’s sprawling Dickensian tal…
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The latest episode of our critical bookclub, A Meal of Thorns, is live: Jared Pechaček joins ARB editor Jake Casella Brookins to talk about E.R. Eddison's MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES:.
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Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Jared PechačekTitle: Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. EddisonH…
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Time-Loop Environmentalism: @EatoughMatthew reviews Solvej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I & II, translated by Barbara J. Haveland (@NewDirections).
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Matthew Eatough Under Review:On the Calculation of Volume (I & II). Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland. New Directions, November 2024. We are, it seems, living through the era of t…
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Found in Translation: for the newest Small Press Dispatch, Roseanna Pendlebury looks at Bae Myung-hoon's THE PROPOSAL, translated by Stella Kim (@honfordstar).
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Roseanna Pendlebury I do not need to fully understand a piece of fiction to enjoy it. I say this as both a personal opinion—it is a true reflection of my own experiences with fiction—but also as so…
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Medieval Reemergence: Don Riggs reviews SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL, ed. Dennis Wilson Wise (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
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Don Riggs Under Review:Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Dennis Wilson Wise. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, December 2023. For those fam…
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New ARB feature: our Notable Criticism of 2024. We painfully narrowed down a huge list of great reviews, essays, & other writing, looking for work speculative criticism that represents and enhances the field. Here are 10 articles we think you should read:.
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For our year-end reflections, we’re trying something new. When we asked our contributors to suggest titles for ARB’s 2024 Notable Books, we also asked them to send us their favorite critical works …
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Our call for April reviews is live, with a bumper crop of speculative novels, collections, and non-fiction:.
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The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
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Happy new year from the ARB! We asked our contributors for their most interesting reads of 2024; here's 17 you should have on your radar:.
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We asked ARB’s contributors to pick one extremely interesting book they read from 2024 to recommend to our readers. Here’s 17 books we think you should have on your radar: Moonboundby Robin Sloan R…
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The Year (and last year, and next year) in SFFH! For the last episode of A MEAL OF THORNS for 2024, critics & editors Jake Casella Brookins & Roseanna Pendlebury talk about their top picks, with lots of musing about trends and themes:.
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Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Roseanna PendleburyHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Gisel…
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It's our last link round-up of the year! Some interesting reads for you:.
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Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…
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