This old Sady Doyle post at The Awl helps me understand better where I think she’s coming...
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Alyssa has the best response up yet to Sady Doyle’s critique of George R. R. Martin. I...
“If a male is intrinsically incapable of contributing valid criticism of a feminist critique, then what is...
Spoilers for the first three books of A Song of Ice and Fire below. A few noted,...
My second piece is live at The Atlantic. This time around I offer up some reading recommendations...
Riffing off of my Atlantic piece, fantasy author R. Scott Bakker writes: According to common wisdom, genre...
~by Kyle Cupp “Have you no shred of honor?” Ned Stark asks this question to the ever-plotting...
Hey everyone…big shameless self-promotion for yours truly. I’ve published my first-ever piece in The Atlantic. It’s about...
I still haven’t seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Deux yet, but I hear the...
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and...
You should be. But even if you’re not, this cover of the show’s theme song is sweet...
(Editor’s note: Erik’s praise for “Game of Thrones” drew me out of semi-retirement. Bear with me) One...
I have television in my house once again – for a little while. This is because it...
I come down closer to Jamelle Bouie’s side of the Hobbit argument than Adam Serwer’s. Jamelle argues...
For the League’s fantasy aficionados (and Erik, who I know loves this stuff): Alyssa Rosenberg is blogging...
I finished reading Diana Wynne Jones’s Charmed Life a few days ago. As far as young adult...
io9 lists the best science fiction novels for fantasy fans. I’m not familiar with any of these...
I am perhaps four fifths of the way through the fourth of the Malazan books – House...
I realize that I have been teetering on the brink of some form of madness or obsession...
