Stories of Your Life and Others

It’s no secret that Stories of Your Life and Others is a classic among science fiction short fiction collections. Between its imaginative use of language and structure, Ted Chiang’s ability to make every story distinct while still quintessentially his, and his ability to make even the most far-fetched concept seem grounded and well supported by internal logic, it achieves a […]

Novelists seem to get all the hype. The short story was once considered just as important as the novel—think Hemingway or Chekhov—but at some point, there just didn’t seem to be a market for short fiction any more. But recently, that’s begun to change. New technology, shorter attention spans, and a wave of films adapted from […]

Russian Doll, the new Netflix series starring and co-written by Natasha Lyonne, is a pretty remarkable achievement: a weird, funny, and tragic blend of drama and science fiction not incidentally written and directed entirely by women, that manages to be original even as it nods to a long list of influences. [Spoiler alert! Though we […]