Blinks

Blinks: Cheuse on Yu and Carroll; Ulin on Ballard; Hand on Harkness

July 18, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» NPR: Alan Cheuse reviews Summer’s Short Story Collections, including titles by Charles Yu and Jonathan Carroll

» LA Times: David L. Ulin on J.G. Ballard’s stormy weather

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Deborah Harkness

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

October 9, 2024 locusmag 0

Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Roundtable

Roundtable on "Planetary Writing" and SF in 2014

January 24, 2014 admin 6

In The Economist‘s recent “The World in 2014” issue, Jonathan Ledgard writes: “Dystopian literature will lose out to more optimistic fare in 2014. In part this shift is attributable to readers’ fatigue with mutant, vampire and (particularly) zombie stories. Mostly, though, it reflects a move in the popular consciousness from civilisational angst to the question of preserving biodiversity.” Later, Ledgard concludes, “2014 will mark the rise of planetary writing: high

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