Snap! Criticism: An Introduction

Dan Hartland In his recent—and excellent—short book on Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood, Paul Kincaid writes of that novel’s worldbuilding that “we do not pass into the world of story, but rather story already occupies the real world.” In the Mythago Wood cycle, the fantastic is immanent in a world otherwise recognisably our own, rather than … Continue reading Snap! Criticism: An Introduction

Treading Old Journeys Anew: Review of Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin

Treading Old Journeys Anew: Review of Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin Frank Rudiger Lopes Under Review:Worlds of Exile and Illlusion. Ursula K. Le Guin. Tor Books, March 2022. Ursula K. Le Guin’s work is always worth visiting and revisiting, from her famous The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness … Continue reading Treading Old Journeys Anew: Review of Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin

Beyond Possibility: Review of Taylor Driggers’ Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature

Beyond Possibility: Review of Taylor Driggers’ Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology Ryn Silverstein Under Review:Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology. Taylor Driggers. Bloomsbury Academic, February 2022. The last week of February 2022 brought with it a crushing blow against trans people in … Continue reading Beyond Possibility: Review of Taylor Driggers’ Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature