Tomorrow evening is the first night of Hanukkah, which in Israel has become primarily associated, on a culinary level, with sufganiot, a type of doughnut...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
This thread has been getting some attention on twitter, so I thought I'd repost it here. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, as the conversation about "good" and.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction imagines the political and social organization of its future societies. This time, our topic is.
I have a review at Strange Horizons in which I try to sum up my deeply conflicted reaction to Netflix's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Netflix’s miniseries adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, by Mike Flanagan (who wrote most of the...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—the CW musical dramedy about coming to terms with your mental health problems—has brought us many classic ditties, but perhaps none as LGM-friendly as this song about why you.
So, here's something you probably don't know about me: I love stories about solar system space exploration. I love fictionalizations of the mid-century space race like Apollo 13 and the.
Malka Older is an academic, a humanitarian worker, and a science fiction writer. We'll be talking about her work in the next Political History of the Future entry, but yesterday on her twitter feed she reminded...
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political worlds. This time, our subject is Revenant Gun, the concluding.
Hey, remember Michael Ian Black, the comedian whose response to Louis CK's attempt to resurrect his career a mere ten months after being exposed as a gross sexual predator was.
There's a problem I occasionally encounter as a reviewer that I call the "it's really good" problem. It's when you want to recommend something that doesn't have an obvious hook (or worse, has a hook that is offputting) and whose appeal boils down the fact...
I finally managed to see BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee's latest film about the real police detective who, in the 70s, infiltrated the KKK. It's basically as good as all the positive.
Shana Tova, LGM! May the year and its curses end; may the year and its blessings begin! Let's trumpet in 5779 with another installment of A Political History of the.