There’s excitement a-cloven-foot for the Ann Vendermeer and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. The Manticore? Not kosher. Kosher? The Vegetable Lamb of…
Via Jeffrey’s Twitter account, look out for Anne Rice’s Angel Time, in which an angel offers redemption to a young federally-funded assassin if he travels back in time…
Once you come out of your food coma, and once you’ve read Michael O’Rourke’s review below, you may have to start compiling next semester’s syllabi.…
by KARL STEEL First! More zombies! Second, thanks very much to our guest bloggers (and to Jeffrey’s organizational moxie) for what’s become a brief history…
Important conversations on what we do as literary critics continue below, but as today’s Halloween, we ought to take some time to scare ourselves. Here…
Arthurian scholars may already know the contents of this fragmentary translation of an Italian work: Uther’s trickery of Igraine (here called Izerna), Lancelot’s lust for…
FB Tony Perkins introduced me recently to the following poem: I wished for death often but now that I am at its door I have…
I’m in the midst of an editing marathon right now, but to let you know I’m still alive, I’ll share this. In “Les Cynocéphales: Étude…
To mark the occasion of being on the verge of sending my book manuscript into the great unknown, and as a kind of prayer for…
Briefly: By now we all know about the Staffordshire Hoard, and we’ve all, or nearly all, looked at the flickr set. We’ve all made our…
