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There鈥檚 nothing that brings people together like trying to navigate a strange situation together, and that鈥檚 exactly what happens in these queer time travel romance books. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is the most well-known example, but there are lots of ways to approach this genre. I have two sapphic romances for you about…
In honor of cauldron season, might I interest you in a range of poisons, potions, and brews in fantasy novels? Riding the line between cooking and chemistry, a classic magic brew is a respected form of world-building in the fantasy genre. However, the art of creating poisons, potions, and brews in fantasy is not entirely…
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In mainstream media, space occupies, well, a lot of space. Sometimes, it鈥檚 presented as this expansive, never-ending vacuum that sits outside of familiarity, and that occasionally sends us into existential panic. It can also sometimes feel claustrophobic, especially in the case of many a great space horror, where characters are trapped aboard a spaceship with…
The first LGBTQ book I read was Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesl茅a Newman, which I discovered on the shelves of my school library. I remember finishing the story and thinking, Huh. So that鈥檚 a thing you can do. It would be years before I realized that I was queer, but even before I knew,…
We are in prime gothic-book-reading time, which is perfect, because the recent offerings for BIPOC gothic fiction are plentiful this year, including a lot of this list of the best new spooky Latine books to read for Latine Heritage Month that I gathered a couple weeks ago. So much of gothic fiction deals with the…
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