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The Non-Holiday Media We Watch Over the HolidaysThere are plenty of holiday films that we adore, favorites that we screen every year to great applause (or groans) from family and friends. But...
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20 Optimistic Fantasies to Brighten Your TBR StackFrom grimdark and sword and sorcery to magical realism and alternate history, we love every flavor of fantasy. But when the days get darker and...
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How the Holidays Became HauntedIn 1891, Jerome K. Jerome wrote, “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each...
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Spend Christmas Among the Stars in Six Intergalactic Holiday SpecialsLots of shows decide they need a little Christmas come December, but they’re not quite sure how to do it. Do you talk about the big...
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Enter the Cactus: Death Valley by Melissa BroderMelissa Broder’s newest novel Death Valley follows a path tread by her previous books, offering an emotionally prosaic story made mystical by...
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The Past Isn’t Even Past: All of Us StrangersI might not be the right person to review All of Us Strangers . Or maybe I’m the best person? I… look. I am not strong. What I knew...
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The Real Magic of Santa ClausWhat does Santa Claus represent? Christmas is a fascinating amalgam of a holiday made up of a great big storm of European traditions, so...
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What Makes a Story Comforting?Though I am slightly loath to admit it, I have been rewatching Grimm . It is dark and wet in Portland, as it always is this time of year, and...
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Small Beer Press Is Halting New PublicationsSmall Beer Press closed to submissions in March 2023, and it looks likely that they won’t open for more submissions, at least in the near...
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Oddball Holiday Classics to Seek Out This SeasonFirst, I should admit that I’m a sucker for a lot of holiday standards, from The Grinch and Peanuts to Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman. I adore...
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Racing Against the Colonial Clock: What the River Knows by Isabel IbañezBased on entirely anecdotal evidence, it seems like most bookish children go through an Egyptology phase. Author Isabel Ibañez certainly did,...
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Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2023As 2023 draws to a close, now is a great time to look back on all of the great young adult speculative fiction from this past year. By the end...
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Kate Winslet Rules With an Iron Fist and Powerful Style in The RegimeThere are many intriguing things about the trailer for The Regime , a limited serious from Succession and The Menu writer Will Tracy, and...
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The Glorious Id of Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhouse“…I’m having the chimney expanded”—Pee-wee Herman A while back, I wrote about watching Muppet Family Christmas and the...
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Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot Is Coming to the Big Screen—Courtesy of Lilo & Stitch Director Chris SandersIn the canon of animated movies that make a person—even a grown adult—sob helplessly, there are two films that arguably stand head and (giant...
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What We Do In the Shadows’ Sixth Season Will Be Its LastSo many vampire-killing metaphors to choose from, here: The sun will rise on What We Do In the Shadows ? The series has gotten a stake through...
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I Am a Mature and Responsible Adult and I Will Attach Rockets to Anything Just to See What HappensSince its release in May, I have played The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom a normal number of hours. Playing Tears of the Kingdom...
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A Warm, Well-Baked Treat: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis BaldreeMy first forays into cozy science fiction and fantasy left me thinking I wasn’t a fan of the genre. I was disappointed by this. I wanted an SFF...
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Seven of the Best SFF Romance Titles of 20232023 is the year we evidently settled on romantasy as the portmanteau of choice, and I cannot say I have fully resigned myself to this...
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A Few Things That Brought Us Nerdy Joy in 2023Here at the end of 2023, it’s safe to say this year has been a minefield of joy, horror, shocking twists both fictional and in real life,...
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Always Winter, But Never Christmas: Santa Claus and NarniaWell, my friends, it is winter here where I live and Christmas is well on its way. The trees are up (we have two, a tradition that started...
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Jonathan Majors Is No Longer Part of Marvel Studios’ FutureYesterday, a jury found Jonathan Majors guilty of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault. Majors faces possible jail time—his...
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Brandon Sanderson’s Fifth Stormlight Archive Book Gets Publishing DateIt’s been a year and a half since Rhythm of War , the fourth book in Brandon Sanderson ’s Stormlight Archive series was published, and we now...
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Millie Bobby Brown Saves Herself From a Shohreh Aghdashloo-Voiced Dragon in DamselIt’s been over a year since we found out that Damsel would be both a Netflix film and a book , but we’ll soon get the movie version...
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Eight Fantasies About the Joys of Bread and Baking“There is not a thing more positive than bread.” So said Fyodor Dostoevsky, and as someone who needs little more than a decent sourdough loaf...
