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 in June that we’d be interested in covering:
Fiction
- Whether Violent or Natural by Natasha Calder
- The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
- The Disinformation War by S. J. Groenewegen
- Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis by Tony Fry
- The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
- Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
- Citadel by C. M. Alongi
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson
- The Beached Ones by Colleen M. Story
- On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane
- The Endless Vessel by Charles Soule
- Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
- The First Cylinder by Joseph Dougherty
- The Infinite Miles by Hannah Fergesen
- Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila
Non-Fiction
- The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction: The Literary Agenda by Deborah Lindsay Williams
- The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Chow
- Folk Horror: New Global Pathways edited by Dawn Keetley & Ruth Heholt
- Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime by Molly Slavin
- In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South by Naveeda Khan
Reissues and Revisits
For works published more than 5 years ago, we are interested in reviews or essays that focus on why this text is worth revisiting, that add context and commentary, or that approach them with a contemporary framing. Some upcoming reissues we’re interested in coverage of include:
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
- Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Kallocain by Karin Boye, translated by David McDuff
- The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
- Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak
- The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
- Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
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.
- 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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