How do we punish the guilty? If we’re guilty, how do we atone? For some […]
Old Soul, by Susan Barker
She leaves misery, destruction, and confusion in her wake. The friends and family of her […]
The Naming of the Birds, by Paraic O’Donnell
Someone is killing powerful men in London. These men are supposed to be untouchable and […]
The God and the Gumiho, by Sophie Kim
Seokga would give anything to be able to leave our messy world and return to […]
Some actual science I learned from fiction
I make this joke a lot: “Everything I know about physics I learned from Michael […]
The Weeds, by Katy Simpson Smith
The way I was taught history, in discrete segments that usually had big gaps between […]
The Book Censor’s Library, by Bothayna Al-Essa
The men of the censorship department spend all of their working hours reading through newly […]