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Falling in love with a book’s protagonist is pretty much for the course when you read a good book. That’s largely because well-written books, almost by definition, come with winningly-articulated characters who propel the page-turning narrative, rather than the other way around, and spending all that time with them, you Continue Reading

There are places in this world where it is hard to imagine beauty of any kind emerging. Top of the list, with dubious honours, would have to be the theatre of war, that peculiarly destructive place where humanity supposedly fights one against the other but if we’re truly honest, against Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTRaybearer themes loyalty and fate, and is steeped in West African traditions and mythologies. The novel centers on Tarisai, who was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. As Raybearer begins, The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTOver the summer of 2019, the Penguin Books distribution center in Maryland played host to a little African penguin who interned with them for a day. The flightless bird confidently walked into the building, through the lobby and right into the warehouse to do a spot inspection. She then made Continue Reading

One thing that quickly becomes apparent when you plunge into the vividly imaginative postmodern queer sci-fi storytelling of Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy, is that this is not your grandmother’s retelling of the Arthurian legend. To be fair, most grandmothers probably do not habitually sit Continue Reading