Beyond a Book Review July ’25: Red + Blue = Purple Prose in This is How You Lose the Time War
"There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there?" July's review of co-authored, epistolary, purple prose.
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Beyond a Book Review, Pride Month 2025 edition
For Pride Month, Shawna Ayoub reflects on what she's learned from reviewing writing by queer and BIPOC authors.
Beyond a Book Review May '25: Charlie Jane Anders and Character Buffets
Charlie Jane Anders is asking big questions in both YA and adult fiction.
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Beyond a Book Review March ’25: Writing Revolution in Blood Over Bright Haven
This fantasy novel explores systemic privilege and the nuance of making tough decisions.
Beyond a Book Review: Erasing History in The Reformatory
Black speculative fiction writer Tananarive Due's historical horror novel tackles hate, privilege, and erasure.
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Beyond a Book Review Jan '25: Considering trust after The Atlas Trilogy
Sometimes you start a book really knowing nothing about it, expecting nothing, just hoping it’ll be a reprieve...
Beyond a Book Review: Finding comfort in the dystopian present of Parable of the Sower
This speculative novel explores an alternate future beginning with the election of a new president in 2024.
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Beyond a Book Review: Planning for what’s real in Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield's novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, is a shorter read that stays with you.
Beyond a Book Review: Reality as horror in Out There Screaming
Out There Screaming is a thoughtful collection of psychological horror and speculative fiction that examines the expectations of the world on Black bodies.
Beyond a Book Review: Risking it all in Fault
Who or what could make you risk it all?