The Forgotten Story of How "Punching Up" Harmed the Science-Fiction/Fantasy World Drama in the sci-fi/fantasy fandom may not be of great consequence for larger society (though the politicization of culture is a real and spreading problem). Cathy Young 18 Aug 2018 · 11 min read
"Canada Has Gone Mad": Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.” Jonathan Kay 10 Jan 2018 · 14 min read
What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome? What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? Helen Dale 30 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
Read Houellebecq To Free Your Mind Houellebecq has grave doubts about the net effect of the sexual revolution on human well-being. Matthew Stahlman 5 Oct 2017 · 15 min read
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion. Robert Darby 4 Oct 2017 · 31 min read
