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“People Collide” Throws Everything You Thought You Knew About Body Swap Stories out the Window
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.
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“The Bruising of Qilwa” Review: A Trans and Queer Fantasy Novella That Packs a Punch
The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
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Davey Davis on “X,” True Crime, and the Fantasy of Screwball Comedy
“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”
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“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park
My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
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In “How To Be Eaten,” Fairytales and Reality TV Are Twisted Sisters
The new novel takes classic fairytales and a Bachelor-like reality show and twines them into a fresh tale of wronged women.
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Nicola Griffith’s Spear Is a Gender-Bending, Queer Arthurian Adventure
There’s magic! There’s sword fights! It’s Mulan meets Merlin with a healthy helping of sapphic romance.
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Malice’s Lesbian Love Story (and Bitter Realities) Are Worthy Additions to Dark Fantasy Re-Tellings
The dark fairytale re-telling has become an established fantasy sub-genre in its own right, and Malice’s sweet lesbian love story and bitter realities are a more-than-worthy addition.
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Curses, Crushes and Celesbians Abound in Emily M. Danforth’s “Plain Bad Heroines”
Plain Bad Heroines is a story so much about storytelling that it feels almost obscene to point it out. “This is story-telling, people!” it seems to shout, in the voice of The Happenings at Brookhants movie director Bo Dhillon, calling “cut” on a disastrous scene that somehow fits perfectly into his plan.