
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and the Tenets of Progressive Faith
A few nights after I saw Tenet, the new Christopher Nolan movie, the rioters in Portland attacked the Oregon Historical …
A few nights after I saw Tenet, the new Christopher Nolan movie, the rioters in Portland attacked the Oregon Historical …
The setting for Leigh Bardugo’s acclaimed new fantasy novel ‘Ninth House’ is Yale, and it’s an unintentionally revealing look at …
On the Jewish themes, characters, and subtexts of Guy Gavriel Kay. Read the essay at the Jewish Review of Books.
In the alternate history of The Smoke, Simon Ings maps sci-fi horror onto the Jews. Read the full review at …
On binge-watching and worlds without tradition. Read the full essay at the Jewish Review of Books.
For six decades and counting, Peter S. Beagle has written fantasy literature with a Jewish-American sensibility. An overview of his …
Forty years ago, Harold Bloom published his bad fantasy novel The Flight to Lucifer. He claimed it was a product …
Two of the most highly praised novels of 2018, Dara Horn’s Eternal Life and Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, feature a Jewish woman born in …
My fantasy reading this month included Jewish shape-shifters and “Pharisees,” Michael Moorcock and Rudyard Kipling, and a new Israeli novel …
Sure, all this beats a pogrom. But given that Novik clearly intends the book to work as a commentary on …
And how it compares with a Jewish American anthology. Read the full review at Mosaic.
“Common themes exist among some if not all of these books: the fluidity of identity in our social media world, …
As pop culture monsters, golems may not have the cachet of zombies or vampires but they haunt us nevertheless, as shown …
Had you the good fortune of being present at a gathering of the Inklings, you might have witnessed J. …
“To this familiar Tel Aviv scene, however, with its characteristic mix of squalor and charm, Tidhar has added cyborgs, chip-implanted …
Age of Ultron, this year’s Avengers film sequel, has generated $1.4 billion worldwide at the box office so far, a …
Frank Herbert’s Dune, often named as the greatest science fiction novel ever written, turns 50 this year. Set thousands of …
Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy of sci-fi / horror novels is contemporary, in some ways even trendy. The cast of …
Science fiction writer Dan Simmons is the author of more than two dozen novels. Not all of them are science …
the matter of science fiction is the geography of reason; of horror, the geography of anxiety; of fantasy, the geography …