The City and the City

China Miéville’s celebrated New Weird fiction, from the grime-encrusted, otherworldly body horrors of Perdido Street Station to unimaginably alien creatures that occupy the planet of Embassytown, don’t exactly scream “television adaptation,” which is a real shame for those of us who would sell our souls to a maniacal inter-dimensional spider god to see the floating […]

Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Blending dark fantasy and political violence in Francisco Franco’s Spain, the film grounds otherworldly fairy tale elements with the harrowing wartime story of Ofelia, whose new stepfather is tasked with tracking down the remnants of republican rebellion. Back To Top

In Lavie Tidhar’s new novel Unholy Land, a suspiciously similarly named pulp writer Liro Tirosh returns to his homeland of Palestina, a Jewish state on Lake Victoria between Kenya and Uganda. Tirosh has been out of the country, living in the Reich for years, in a Germany that never perpetrated a Holocaust. But his father, a […]