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It's our last link round-up of the year! Some interesting reads for you: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/23/wow…

The Year (and last year, and next year) in SFFH! For the last episode of A MEAL OF THORNS for 2024, critics & editors Jake Casella Brookins & Roseanna Pendlebury talk about their top picks, with lots of musing about trends and themes: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/30/a-m…

Happy new year from the ARB! We asked our contributors for their most interesting reads of 2024; here's 17 you should have on your radar: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/01/arb…

Our call for April reviews is live, with a bumper crop of speculative novels, collections, and non-fiction: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/02/cal…

New ARB feature: our Notable Criticism of 2024. We painfully narrowed down a huge list of great reviews, essays, & other writing, looking for work speculative criticism that represents and enhances the field. Here are 10 articles we think you should read: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/05/arb…

Medieval Reemergence: Don Riggs reviews SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL, ed. Dennis Wilson Wise (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/06/med…

Found in Translation: for the newest Small Press Dispatch, Roseanna Pendlebury looks at Bae Myung-hoon's THE PROPOSAL, translated by Stella Kim (Honford Star) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/08/sma…

Time-Loop Environmentalism: Matthew Eatough reviews Solvej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I & II, translated by Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/10/tim…

The latest episode of our critical bookclub, A Meal of Thorns, is live: Jared Pechaček joins ARB editor Jake Casella Brookins to talk about E.R. Eddison's MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/13/a-m…

Dead Cities Rise: Sam Reader reviews Alex Pheby's WATERBLACK, out now from Tor Books! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/15/dea…

The Count's Successors: Doctor. Also a Bear. on love and defiance in COUNTESS (ECW Press) and FIRE BORN OF EXILE (Gollancz) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/21/the…

In the second installment of Like Perfume Behind Your Ears, Dylan Haston & Becca Schneid discuss poetry from Kaleidotrope, Strange Horizons, The Orange and Bee, Augur, and more: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/23/lik…

"Gualeni and Fassone seek to understand how games shape subjectivity, how games and ideology interact, and the possibilities for transformation that games afford." From the archives: Eric Stein (he/him) reviews FICTIONAL GAMES (Bloomsbury Academic) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/26/ima…

Technopessimism, Whitman in space, and the corrective potential of leftist jocks: Hilary Strang of the maroonedonmarspodcast podcast joins us to talk Kim Stanley Robinson's AURORA on the latest episode of A Meal of Thorns! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/27/a-m…

The Marriage of Science and Nature: alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Cristina Jurado's CHLOROPHILIA (Apex Magazine, translated by Sue Buke) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/29/the…

First link round-up of the year! ARB's "Wow! Signal" column brings together reviews, essays, and interviews from around (and beyond) the world of speculative criticism: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/30/wow…

Adaptability and Sense of Self: cardamom pod misha interviews Mina Fears about THE SCORPION QUEEN, out this week from Flatiron Books! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/31/ada…

A bit 11th hour, but: it occurs to us that ARB and A Meal of Thorns are eligible to be nominated for the #HugoAwards! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/31/eli…

Call for reviews & essays time, already: here's a few books we're interested in covering for May 2025! Send us a pitch if you're interested, and don't hesitate to pitch us an idea or a title that isn't listed here. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/01/cal…