Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez is an extraordinary travelogue and memoir that invites readers on a journey through the world’s cemeteries. Mariana joins us to talk about travelogues, epigraphs, confronting death, working through fear, horror films and more with cohost Isabelle McConville. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Isabelle […]

Summer is months away, our mornings and evenings are spent in darkness, the East Coast is buried under approximately twenty feet of snow and we may never hear from them again…yep, sounds like fantasy vacation planning time to me. What’ll it be? Somewhere sandy and sunny, where you can drink an elaborate cocktail on the […]

If you love both detectives and science fiction, there’s a chance you’re a really fun person. But what would it be like to be a detective in the future? Sure, no one analyzes clues like The Doctor, and Spock and Data tackle a sort of whodunit from time to time, but what about your bonafide sci-fi gumshoes? […]

I love science fiction books. I love science fiction movies. But somehow, the two don’t always blend well. While a lot of stunning fiction adaptations are in the works, particularly for the silver screen, Hollywood’s track record of turning classic science fiction or fantasy novels into box office money makers is a little spotted. Now that […]

For as long as we’ve had visions of utopia and perfect bliss, we’ve also envisioned the opposite. Mad scientists, thought police, totalitarian governments…in these grim versions of the future, there’s no shortage of villains. Always, however, the real culprit is human nature. If you enjoyed recent dystopian reads like  The Hunger Games trilogy and California, check out the dystopian classics […]