Dark Futures in “Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century” – Chicago Review of Books

Dark Futures in “Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] We’re living through rough times. Pandemics, climate change, volcanic eruptions—each sweeping horror seems worse than the last. In Kim Fu’s new collection of stories, Lesser Known Monsters Of The 21st Century, the horrors are more intimate, smaller, and less global in scale. This is not a collection filled with fantastic beasts, although a sea … Read more

The Multitudes and Multiverse of “Black Futures”

The Multitudes and Multiverse of “Black Futures”

[ad_1] In the forward to Black Futures—this eclectic anthology of Black imagination and achievement—co-editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham share its central question: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” Of course, that “right now” is necessarily a misnomer, because the world has changed, is changing, from the time this project … Read more