Lila Prime

Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines   tells a deliciously convoluted and self-referential set of nested stories. The first layer of s...

Nicola Griffith's Spear is a short, fascinating novella that retells a side quest legend in the Arthurian constellation of stories and c...

There is no antimemetics division is a novel / series of short stories / piece of collaborative fiction authored by qntm . The entire work ...

Garth Nix 's Sabriel is a YA fantasy novel; it came to me highly recommended so I will summarize reasons why, reading it in 2020 as cer...

Susanna Clarke 's Piranesi is a novel in the form of a series of journal entries; the character who is writing is, by turns, unreliable...

Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing . (Of course, at birth he was probably very bad at abstract reasoning and proofs,...

Claire North's trilogy of novellas The Serpent , The Thief , and The Master , all focus on a mythical "Gameshouse", a gambling...

I've been recommended Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn severally, and heard praise of it, so I took it off my reading queue and actually rea...

I have no particular, publicly-declarable goals to commemorate the incrementing of our calendar year, except that --- as always --- I want t...

I know what you're thinking. You're wondering, "what can I watch and listen to to better imitate Lila in thought, action, and d...

17776  ("What football will look like in the future") is a piece of fiction by Jon Bois, published on the sports website SB nation...

Daniel Handler 's Watch Your Mouth is a decidedly adult novel. It provides a nice counterpoint in my mind to his children's books ,...

Months of persistent nagging, often several times a day , was insufficient this time. Most of the class defaulted and failed to submit any s...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. (This question was student-generated, too!) What is the largest number you hav...

"Jesus had said it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven, but rocketry had thi...

"In attempting to be completely faithful to real life, in all its true confusion and complexity, Joyce ended up writing a book that is ...

Certain sentences can grind my brain to a halt, demanding attention and completely derailing the reading process, whether by tone, word cho...

Nnedi Okorafor 's The Book of Phoenix fits the mold of her previous writing ( Binti , Lagoon ) for me: it is vaguely science-fiction/fa...

Catherynne M. Valente hits another one out of the park --- and all the way up to the moon --- with  The Girl Who Soared over Fairyland and ...

Catherynne M. Valente continues to delight with The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There , the second book in her Fairy...