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Essays

Racism in the Monocultures of Science Fiction

In real life, monoculture is an agricultural term used to describe farms that grow only one type of crop. It is also known…

Articles

Interview with an Iranian Otaku

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Japanese animated films (anime,アニメ) and the manga (漫画) from which they are often derived has grown into a global cultural force. Our Middle East editor,…

Book Reviews Reviews

Review: Membranes by Chi-Ta Wei

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Membranes” a thematically rich yet short novel by author and literary critic Chi Ta-Wei. It was written in 1995 but it has been translated to…

Book Reviews Reviews

Review: Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

austinyoshino April 19, 2021 No Comments

“No matter what the lowest-eumelanin people say, Black Lives are Star Stuff and Black Lives Matter, all of them.” I think some people, despite having…

Fiction

Cry-4 Eyeball

austinyoshino January 11, 2021 No Comments

“Magnetopause in 3, 2, 1….” Koda pulled his visor down. The doctors told him that passing from space into Tacitus’ magnetosphere would be disorienting and, perhaps…

Music Reviews

Review: Walk Through Fire by Yola

austinyoshino December 10, 2020 No Comments

British born “Queen of Country Soul”? Why not? “Walk Through Fire” firmly establishes British born vocalist, Yola, as precisely that. My first encounter with…