Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein Jeremy Brett Under Review:Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. Mary-Jane Rubenstein. University of Chicago Press, November 2022. Few books of late have given me such pause as Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s thoughtful Astrotopia. Like many, I … Continue reading Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Anxieties, Alienation, and Vampires: A Review of Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Anxieties, Alienation, and Vampires: A Review of Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda Oohini Samanta Under Review:Woman, Eating. Claire Kohda. HarperVia, 19 April, 2022. Claire Kohda’s debut novel Woman, Eating interrogates some of the conventional paradigms of the ‘vampire’ trope by re-envisioning them from the vantage point of a mixed-heritage female vampire. The 23-year-old Lydia, a … Continue reading Anxieties, Alienation, and Vampires: A Review of Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Wayward Lives and Paper Hearts: Review of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Wayward Lives and Paper Hearts: Review of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Sam Botz Under Review: The Chosen and the Beautiful. By Nghi Vo. Tordotcom, June 6, 2021. Jordan Baker has a gift for listening, for drawing out others’ secret truths like spun sugar, but rarely is she told a story with … Continue reading Wayward Lives and Paper Hearts: Review of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag

Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag Nandini Ramachandran I. Trains of Thought The railroad has been an icon of orderly progress for two centuries. Tracking commentary on it is like reading a greatest hits album put out by the Patriarchs of Social Theory—Marx, Weber, Foucault, Latour—for all of whom … Continue reading Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag

Review Copy Received: Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania

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. Update (9.22.2020): A reviewer has been secured for this … Continue reading Review Copy Received: Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania