An Introduction to the Speculative Fiction of Percival Everett

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

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

Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians by Maile Arvin

Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Arvin Gregory Pōmaikaʻi Gushiken Under Review: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania. Maile Arvin. Duke University Press. 2019. Native Hawaiian feminist scholar Maile Arvin’s history of social science and its … Continue reading Scientizing White Supremacy: Review of Possessing Polynesians by Maile Arvin

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

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