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, speculative, global writing. If you are interested in writing for ARB, please check out our Procedures & Style Guide, and pitch us using the form below!
ARB is always interested in critical essays on speculative fiction and related topics. We also invite pitches for guides: a brief introduction and a short annotated reading list for an author, topic, or subgenre. For reviews, here are some titles coming out early next year we’d be interested in covering:
Fiction
- Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu
- The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
- Threadneedle by Cari Thomas
- Station Six by S.J. Klapecki
- Wild Massive by Scotto Moore
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
- The Spite House by Johnny Compton
- Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
- Frontier by Grace Curtis
- Evil Flowers by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Kari Dickson
- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
- Hopeland by Ian McDonald
- The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss
- Users by Colin Winnette
- Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
- The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
- Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth
- VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Non-Fiction
- An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety by Cherie Dimaline
- Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film by Robbie Moore
- Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film by Maria Stehle
Other Review and Essay Options:
- ARB is always broadly interested in pitches for essays about genre fiction, world literature, literature and media from below, cultural studies, and writing about systemic injustices and utopian impulses.
- If you’re interested in reviewing anything not on this list, please send us a pitch—we’re interested in a broad range of topics. For works published more than 5 years ago, we are interested in “retrospective reviews” that focus on why this text is worth revisiting.
- We are accepting pitches for review and essay series, such as re-reads of an author.
- We welcome pitches for “Ancillary Guides” that introduce readers to an idea by way of a list of 5-10 books that are must-reads on a critical conversation, with brief commentary.
If you are interested in writing for ARB, please fill out the form below: let us know what you’d like to write about, and why you might be suited for it. While we welcome new writers, please point us towards any of your reviews or other writing if possible (personal blogs or Goodreads are fine). If there are multiple books for review that catch your eye, please list them in the order you’re interested in reviewing them. Please check out our Procedures & Style Guide to see how it works and what we’re looking for.
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