What emerges from this multiversal narrative is a deep, compelling portrait of a flawed, hurting character.

Absolution is the kind of prequel that shouldn’t be read first.

The Night Ends with Fire examines the large-scale historic events that affect kingdoms. But it also explores the personal lives of the people affected by war.

Rare Birds is an interestingly oblique exercise in weird fiction.

Palestinian/Jordanian author Ibrahim Nasrallah is one of the novelists who critically engaged with the climate crisis in Dog War II (2016), which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2018.

This collection feels like a curated gift for Novik fans.

Pranams to my most dear and queer Strange fam. We are finally at the penultimate episode of this show and I do not know how to process this. I’m scared. I’m hungry. I’m sleepy. LIFE IS SO CONFUSING! I’m not too sure what to expect but as we have seen, literally anything can happen in this story. Anyway, Let's go! Let’s start with a completely unreliable recap of our story and cast of characters. There are the Wilsons who are dead, the mayor Hugh, his inappropriate wife Anna, a handful of assorted professors, an annoying doctor and poor Janet who is being plagued by the mud and the doctor.

Nguyen’s novel is an ambitious mix.

“The first words were born in the voices of the first Speakers.” (p. 285) Close your eyes and think. Think of words as living beings. Not the living, breathing entities that can be meek or overbearing as we know them in our minds, but physical, sentient beings with emotions, personalities, and speech. Anxious might trot and stutter at infrequent intervals, fretting about the state of the world and the hiccups she’s been having throughout the week. Serendipity would likely find treats lying in a corner, or their favourite book left on their doorstep by accident, always in a cerulean summer dress.

The stories and poems in Geoffrey W. Cole’s Zebra Meridian imagine the factors that might determine success in extending the lifespan of objects, relationships, people, ecosystems, planets, universes. Salvage and repair are central concerns. Don’t read Zebra Meridian because you want reliably feel-good stories: the book seems to offer odds of about 40 percent on positive outcomes for crisis-driven human(ish) reconstitutive enterprises. But do read it if you’re interested in stylish, genre-informed investigations of what it means to “save” or “fix” almost anything. Throughout, Cole skillfully conjures a range of difficult, high-stakes wrangles for survival and flourishing, across a wide array of genres.