Book Review
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Kiss of the Rose Princess
Guilty pleasures come in all categories—food, books, and TV shows, to name a few. But none of these are as quirky as manga, which can…
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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…
