Genre mashups are a mature art form these days. We’ve thrown together religious pilgrimages and sci-fi apocalypses, Victorian morals and modern technology, operas in space, and aliens visiting us across time. My personal pick: that time someone decided to mash up dragons and tea cups. In recent years, a glorious lot of authors have realized many of the people who […]
In Ada Palmer’s first novel, Too Like the Lightning, the history professor tells an ambitious story of a future word on the brink of extraordinary change, when the well-ordered structures of society are poised to collapse under their own weight given the introduction of a young boy who represents something wholly new and unexpected. The […]
Fans of Cassandra Claire’s bestselling Mortal Instruments series let out a collective squee when Freeform resurrected the franchise’s onscreen potential after the film didn’t do so great. Enter the Shadowhunters TV show, giving fans another chance to see their favorite characters from City of Bones in as close to real life as possible. The series has me thinking: what […]
It hardly seems possible that we book nerds would find inspiration in a scant 140 characters, but a teeny-tiny tweet can pack in a surprising amount of wisdom, shine a light onto someone’s life, or (just as worthwhile) offer up a pretty good joke. Here are our picks for the best book-flavored tweets of the past week, from readers […]
