Bren Ram In 2018, a French academic pulled me aside at a conference and asked if I thought Percival Everett was the most important novelist in America. I was surprised—I had only just heard of Everett that year, and while I was ravenously making my way through his prolific catalog of novels and short stories, … Continue reading An Introduction to the Speculative Fiction of Percival Everett
Tag: Black SFF
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner Garrett Bridger Gilmore Under Review:Black Pulp. Brooks E. Hefner. University of Minnesota Press, December 2021. In his autobiography The Big Sea Langston Hughes famously opines that despite the fashionable fervor for Black art among white audiences in the 1920s, “the ordinary Negroes hadn’t … Continue reading Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Swapping the Skin on a Parable: A Review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Goliath
Swapping the Skin on a Parable: A Review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Goliath Madhumati Chowdhury Under Review:Goliath. Tochi Onyebuchi. Tordotcom, January 25, 2022. The biblical tale of David versus Goliath is one of the first underdog tales to have existed. And, as is with any underdog tale, one must always keenly inspect the context in which … Continue reading Swapping the Skin on a Parable: A Review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Goliath
Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns
Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns Leigha McReynolds One of the responses to the increased urgency and visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020 was a call for white people to expand their perspective and interrogate their privilege by reading the work of Black authors. In the field of speculative … Continue reading Reading Towards Anti-Racism: Challenging Preconceptions with New Suns
Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown
Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown Shelby Brewster Under Review: Grievers. By adrienne maree brown. AK Press, September 7, 2021. Grievers is the third plague story I’ve read during the pandemic. (First was Ling Ma’s Severance, then The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade.) Though brown began writing her first … Continue reading Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown
Brown Women In The Ring: Review of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Brown Women In The Ring: Review of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark J. Frank Beane Under Review: Ring Shout. P. Djèlí Clark. Tordotcom, 2020. P. Djèlí Clark’s unapologetically Black novella Ring Shout is an excellent example of a book in the fantasy subgenre of Black magic. Other books in this subgenre include Nalo Hopkinson’s … Continue reading Brown Women In The Ring: Review of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Playing in the Dark: Review of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Playing in the Dark: Review of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Casey Patterson Under Review: The Dark Fantastic: Race and Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. New York University Press, 2019. The study of fan reception has … Continue reading Playing in the Dark: Review of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Review Copy Received: Eboni Dunbar’s Stone and Steel
ARB regularly posts updates about review copies—print and digital—received by the editors and available for review. We receive this as a result of editor-direct outreach to presses to inquire about specific books and topics, as well as via our page describing review copy policy, available here. ARB has a print (paperback) review copy of Eboni … Continue reading Review Copy Received: Eboni Dunbar’s Stone and Steel
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