Recent Articles

Autumn 2008 in the Key of Schubert

by Jeffrey Johnson

17 November 2008

The glimpses of Schubert's day-to-day life prove a relationship between the ordinary and the miraculous.

What Killed the Robot Soldier?

by Ben Crispin

10 November 2008

Did the Army receive their new machines on the radio-clogged battlefield, relieved that all of those worrying signal problems had been resolved . . . and then discover that they hadn't been?

The Fantasy of Talking Back: Susanna Clarke's Historical Present in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

by Elizabeth Hoiem

27 October 2008

At the center of Susanna Clarke's historical novel are three characters, each a victim of Strange and Norrell's project to promote magic as rational and "English," and each corresponding to a social group historically marginalized in order to solidify Englishness as a cohesive category of identity[.]

A Revisionist History of Earthsea

by William Alexander

20 October 2008

It is not easy to bring a Foucauldian understanding of historical contingency to high fantasy. The genre resists. Le Guin manages anyway.

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