Ah, yes, the one trope that sings to me the most: rivals to “if we never have to be in the same vicinity as each other, it'll be too...

Gods of Jade and Shadow feels told rather than read, and it pulled me back into the memory of the stories my mother used to tell me. I...

“Have you encountered any others who have truly met themselves?” This line from Carmen Maria Machado’s short-story collection Her Body...

Mexican Gothic is a sublime work of post-colonial gothic. It’s a story that unsettled me so effectively I found myself, on more than one...

A large pleasure in re-reading a favorite book is to experience that sense of almost-newness: to recognize and relive everything again...

It's hard to talk about this book because it is so many things at once. It's a heady epic and an intimate portrait of people wracked with...

How do you talk about a book that has completely obliterated your capacity for language? For days after I finished reading The Traitor...

I am incapable of reading anything Sofia Samatar writes without the tumbling headlong desire to put my whole body into her words, to...

Alix. E. Harrow is one of my auto-buy authors, and her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January—a book about stories and doors and...

This book seduced me with its promise of spooky times and long stretches of repressed miserable queer longings and subsequently hooked...