Author, author: Laurie Petrou’s literary thriller The Rayburn Affair takes on themes of authorship, fame, and AI
Relatability and its close relative, likeability, are concepts Petrou is enamoured with calling into question.
Piercing the veil: Ellen Datlow’s new anthology of Halloween stories provides spooky and more melancholy fare
The multifaceted nature of the entries in All Hallows' Eve is part of the point.
In sheep’s clothing: A new anthology examines the monsters around us and the ways we often fail to recognize them
One of the key sources of monstrosity across numerous entries in the collection is capitalism.
Roll another number: Muddled litRPG novel can’t overcome inborn structural defects
The most noteworthy aspect of the novel is its style.
“We are going to hell”: Argentine writer Diego Muzzio’s novel The Eye of Goliath is a Gothic-tinged excursion into madness
Successive characters in The Eye of Goliath are presented as psychically bifurcated.
Almost thirty years after its first appearance, Ryu Murakami’s most notorious novel remains a potent shocker
Audition may qualify as an outlier in Murakami's canon, given the relatively deliberate pace with which the bulk of the story unfolds.
Thélyson Orélien’s Canadian publisher drops author after confirming AI use in writing of debut novel
An external analysis of "all the working drafts of the novel" detected "traces of AI tags in the metadata of certain documents."
Yellow shadows: How Robert W. Chambers’s “The Repairer of Reputations” influenced Lovecraft and Langan
"The Repairer of Reputations" does cleave to Lovecraft's understanding of fear as "the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind."
TWUC joins as founding signatory to a global charter calling for ethical use of AI
Much of the impetus for creating the charter arose out of governments around the world being reluctant to enact any kind of meaningful regulation regarding the new technology.
Sally Rooney’s publisher withdraws her books from U.K. sale over the author’s support of Palestinian activist group
In 2025, Rooney, who is a resident of the Republic of Ireland, cancelled all upcoming appearances in the U.K.