When you make an AI too smart, you also give it anxiety and depression and an appetite for serialized television. These are the things that motivate Murderbot, the protagonist...

Percy Jackson and his pals are back in another mythology-packed middle-grade adventure story, this time (mostly) patterned after the voyages of our old pal Odysseus. Our theme music was...

Mssr. Merseault only likes a few things, unfortunately he must live his life doing plenty of other things for people he doesn’t particularly care about. Such is the story...

What if a dog was your POV character? What if that dog’s owner was JACK THE RIPPER? What if there was a game but you didn’t know who was...

We joined Melody and Sabrina for episode 300 of Heaving Bosoms, where we all chatted about the made-to-order, big-on-TikTok, new-adult romantasy that is Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing. (It may...

For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be revisiting Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad. We’ll be reading it a few books at...

Based on the hit film–just kidding. Blatty’s novel was swiftly turned into a landmark film adaptation just a few years after its release. And it’s easy to see why:...

How would the “breakdown” phase of an apocalypse novel function if the characters involved had already survived through multiple apocalypses? That’s the perspective that this week’s book brings, in...

What if H.G. Well’s classic tale of humanimals created by a mad scientist were recontextualized in southeast Mexico? Would you find yourself saying that the Yucatan is less an...