The situation remains unclear, but as of this moment we are eight hours into a large-scale Hamas attack on Israeli territory, comprising thousands of rocket attacks and ground incursions into the kibbutzim and towns surrounding Gaza. Over five hundred Israelis are injured and the death...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
2023 has been a very good year for solidly entertaining, not too challenging TV adaptations of science fiction and fantasy book series. Apple TV+'s Silo, adapted from the trilogy by.
Terry Pratchett, author of more than fifty books, most of them set in the ever-expanding Discworld universe, died of complications of Alzheimer's in 2015. His death sent shockwaves through a.
Pictured: Star Trek's greatest shame Welcome back, after a long hiatus, to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction intersects with politics, economics, sociology, and the hot-button issues of the day. I have several essays planned for the rest of...
In my last roundup of recent gaming I noted that this would be an irregular series. Entirely unexpectedly, however, a rule has suggested itself: I will post about gaming on.
As we all know, film twitter is the fucking worst, and they are rarely in fuller flower than when a new movie by a beloved white male auteur is newly.
In brief, Oppenheimer is good, though I find some of the rapturous praise for it curiously overblown. Even allowing for the fact that I am fairly lukewarm on Christopher Nolan in general, it seems to me like a well-made, overlong, ultimately rather conventional biopic. As...
I know, I know, Succession. And look, I do not watch Succession, so I suppose I can't definitively say that The Bear is the better show. But I've also been.
I watched Wes Anderson's latest, Asteroid City, on Wednesday, and came away thinking that it was delightful but slight. The further I get from the movie, however, the more it.
I mentioned Tochi Onyebuchi's Goliath in my Hugo ballot post, and reviewed it on my blog. But the further I get away from it, the more convinced I become that this is one of the major science fiction novels of 2022, and that neither I...
Today is LGM fund drive day! I am choosing to celebrate by, um, recommending stuff on other websites? No, wait, this actually makes sense: if you donate to LGM, they.
Last year I posted here about Art Spiegelman's Maus, in the context of its being banned by American school boards (a trend that has only continued and worsened since). I.