Science Fiction as Poetry

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.

Simon Stålenhag’s Alternate Histories

Amazon’s Tales from the Loop has introduced a new audience to the speculative worlds of the Swedish artist, whose books depict worlds in which humanity has, in one way or another, run afoul of technology.

What Are “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”?

A recent government report gave UFOs a rebrand, but so many basic questions remain unanswered.

Working on Our Primal Scream

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

Elizabeth Hand’s Curious Toys

Celebrated novelists John Crowley and Elizabeth Hand discuss Hand’s new novel and the ways that historical fiction can and cannot answer our questions about the past.

A World of Electric Children

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning film Arrival. Now his new collection of short stories gives us further glimpses of possible futures.

The Private Edward Gorey

The cult artist and author proves an evasive subject for biography, a fact that would surely have delighted him.

A Postcard from Ursula

A science fiction writer remembers his early correspondences with Ursula Le Guin.

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

On this day, the Crows of the region joined the history of People, and their own history began.

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

Stranger Things: The Rise and Fall of UFOs and Life on the Moon

Let's all move to the moon.

Paul Park’s Hidden Worlds

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.

Forget Harry Potter

Adults Should Read Joan Aiken's Wolves

American Counterworld

Remembering Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)

Unpacking

It’s strange to think of Katchor’s work as lifelike, but there it is. Its lifelikeness is partly a function of the felt possibility of ongoing randomness inherent in the comic-strip mode.

Life Work

Nicholson Baker grows up

Worldmaker

Remembering Thomas Disch.

Uproars

Leslie Epstein’s magic.

Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell's Natural History

Little Criminals

Reading Richard Hughes.

The Happy Place

On Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

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