by Gautam Bhatia | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
In his Introduction to The Architecture of Knowledge, Michel Foucault wrote of his experience reading Jorge Luis Borges: “…the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought, the thought that bears the stamp...
by Salik Shah | Apr 11, 2017 | Reviews
Bruce Boston’s poetry is “a cyberglyph of a language / composed of… lightning exclamations” that reveal the ferocity of existence, emotional and literary, under close, (re)invigorating examination. [1] In these two volumes of collected poetry spanning nearly five...
by Ajapa Sharma | Apr 11, 2017 | Reviews
Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas began a series of coffee-table books on short stories about monsters from across the world. After traveling to Europe in 2014 and Africa in 2015, Jo Thomas had to step out, and Helgadóttir put forward a wonderful edition on Asian...
by Aditya Singh | Jan 9, 2017 | Reviews
Worldbuilding can be a dull affair. An attempt to survey a place that isn’t there can often result in writing that isn’t readable. For M. John Harrison [1], a work of fiction relying on worldbuilding does not invite readers to the text with the idea that reading is a...
by Isha Karki | Jan 9, 2017 | Articles, Reviews
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) opens with editor Ken Liu’s discussion of the limiting nature of comparative categories such as ‘Chinese science fiction’ or ‘science fiction written in English.’ I believe it is important,...
by Gautam Bhatia | Jan 6, 2017 | Articles, Reviews
In recent years, India has become a somewhat unlikely site of a particular kind of speculative fiction novel. Mid-2014 saw the publication of Monica Byrne’s The Girl in the Road, featuring an Indian protagonist and a journey across a bridge that spanned the Indian...
