Book Review
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Lonesome no More!
Different writers speak to different people. There can be lots of writers that you like, and lots that you don’t. But I think for each…
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Disconnected Tales: Contrasting Ken Liu’s Original and Translated Works
While I was growing up, the Chinese realm of my life was wholly separate from the English one. The two only overlapped when I struggled…
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Enter the Raccoon
I would never have known about the existence of Enter the Raccoon if it wasn’t for Beatriz Hausner herself, who came in as a plenary…
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Swamp Things and Singing True: a Review of the comic Bayou
If you’re going to build a world with words, look at Jeremy Love’s comic book series Bayou for inspiration—you can’t go wrong. What began as…
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Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting
It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…
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The Poor Teaching Practices of Professor Dumbledore
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was a great man. A champion of wizard and muggle rights, defender of the innocent, genius, scholar, warrior, philosopher,…
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Commentary on OneOfUs; Kid-Horror and Cotton Candy Blood
In keeping with the theme of childhood and newer (past few years) authors emerging from within the speculative genre, this post’s selection is from 2010…
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Of Imagination and Fantasy: The Importance of Childhood and a Look at Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
For many readers, it seems that speculative fiction (once you figure out what it means) conjures up either thoughts of the future or the ancient…
The Spectatorial 