Harare Review of Books

Finally! Harare Review of Books, Issue 2, 2026 https://shonatiger.substack.com/p/harare-review-of-books-issue-2-2026?r=18i0sn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

⏰ Starts TODAY! The Art of the Short Story—a safer space for #BIPOC writers, including Black, Indigenous, SWANA, AAPI, Latine, LGBTQ+ writers, led by Kweli Founding Editor/Publisher Laura Pegram. ➤Craft seminars ➤In-class writing ➤Masterworks study ➤Peer reviews LEARN MORE at link in bio↑

Almost definitely the best panel at #mcmconicon this weekend. #writingfighting with @clclarkwrites.com & @phokion.bsky.social

This was a great conversation with @lynellgeorge.bsky.social!

I’m looking forward to my book talk and conversation with Dr. Xiaohan Du at Asia Society next Thursday! asiasociety.org/new-york/eve... If you are interested in attending in person, please let me know, and I’ll send you a coupon code for free ticket.

Literally cannot WAIT to interview Czech author Petra Hůlová and her translator @alexzucker.bsky.social tomorrow at the Writer's Center in Bethesda MD about "The Long Version," one of the best, most thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Join us at 6! writer.org/event/petra-...

REVIEWERS - Abandoned: Asylum edited by @mothman13.bsky.social is now available on NETGALLEY in case you're looking for something timely to review for Halloween. www.netgalley.com/catalog/prev...

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For #IntersexAwarenessDay: This fantastic cosmic horror anthology from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social My contribution “Feast of Saints” is a meditation on how much sacrifice is often demanded of AFAB people & in counterpoint, the aching quest to reach beyond assigned sex despite the sacrifice:

Whoever uses IG a lot I still encourage you to follow my backup, and for anyone to consider following me on Patreon as a free member. You pay nothing, and I don't have a lot to offer to free members, but it will function like a newsletter so that we won't lose each other over socmed being petty.

We have the first media review of @ajodasso.bsky.social’s reign - and whaddyaknow it’s *also* a vintage SF review. Here’s Luke Renner on the 1950s radio play of A Logic Named Joe and the X Minus One series: “an opportunity to compare against what our collective dreams and aspirations once were.”

Chad Harbach, Jane Schoenbrun, Jonathan Van Meter and More: 20 new books out today!

I had some thoughts about An Accident of Dragons by Cheri Radke, featuring: bullet points straight from my reading journal because I couldn't figure out how to connect all my thoughts in an essay. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/10/25/l...

Tchaikovsky’s joyfully off-kilter sentences and wry wordplay in the Tyrant Philosophers act as a repudiation of the absolutist ideal of “correctness” espoused by the books' primary antagonists. This quintet of novels is a joy to read. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Utility alone cannot explain why humans seek out beauty. After all, a sunset or a sonata yields no evolutionary benefit. For Nicholas Humphrey, humans seek out beauty because it helps us “provide the training sets for our own minds.”

My review of a great collection! www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12884 @manchesterreview.bsky.social

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is looking for short stories for its forthcoming special issue ‘Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors’. Deadline 1st December and guest edited by Elsa Court, Nina Ellis and Sonya Moor: www.intellectbooks.com/short-fictio...

The Personal Anthology website now features an archive of over 3,600 short story recommendations, picked by nearly 300 individual guest editors – with stories written by over 1,600 different authors. And remember I'm always on the lookout for contributors. Hit me up! DMs open.

There are now signed copies of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (special edition) at the wonderful @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco. Books not bombs! 🕊️

‘If racial prejudice emerged only at a particular moment rather than being an abiding feature of human societies, then it’s a product of history – enduring, but not ineluctable.’ Alexander Bevilacqua on slavery’s intellectual origins. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

You have just a few more days to send flash and poetry to @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social before we close for submissions! For a glimpse of the poetry we've published recently, I've gushed about each incredible poem featured in our summer issue in this thread...

At rhe behest of @kashinggiwa.bsky.social , I'm posting the list of books from Anti-Inperialism in Horror and Fantasy panel. Keep in mind this list isn't exhaustive AND the goal isn't to have/read these books but extract the units of anit-imperialism to study and populate them in tour fiction,

What a great essay from @ergative-abs.bsky.social & @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social on the linguistic complexities of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. Rise up, language (and anti-language) nerds! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/10/essa...

this is real?!?! GOD IS AN ANARCHIST! the conehead mantis.

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

my current book has great potential but is terribly under-edited. first draft stuff, sentences that contradict the one before, as you know bob dialogue, internal inconsistencies in time and setting. and 2 editors are thanked in the acknowledgements. is everyone just too overwhelmed to work or what

Happy Birthday Vijay Iyer! @vijayiyer.bsky.social Trio performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 10/31/2024. Prelude: Orison 00:27 Historicity 04:12 Tempest 09:09 Kite (For Refaat Alareer) 18:28 Ghostrumental 25:34 Vijay Iyer - Piano Linda May Han Oh - Bass Jeremy Dutton - Drums #JazzSky #HBD

Happy birthday Vijay Ayer! Henry Threadgill – alto saxophone Vijay Iyer – piano Dafnis Prieto – drums released August 21, 2026 Producer: Vijay Iyer Engineer: Ryan Streber Recording dates: Nov 15-16, 2025 Recording studio & location: Oktaven Audio, Mt Vernon, NY #jazzsky #botd

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

In Shakespeare's day, dictionaries used to be chained to the desks or bookcases. Maybe we should revive the practice.

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

"Violet, what is desire?" you ask. And I say it is that thing that is neither hunger nor food. "But where does desire come from?" you ask. And I say it is from outer space. "Then what is love?" you ask. And I say it is two mirrors facing one another. "And what is fantasy?" you ask. And I say it is

If you're an indie Indian music fan with some basic graphic design / copywriting / social media chops who's currently un- or under-employed, hit us up, we have an idea we're working on

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

A joy to return to Coode Street for a conversation about my new novel THE FIST OF MEMORY (out tomorrow in North America!), science and mysticism, action cinema influences, connectedness and more with the super knowledgeable Gary and Jonathan.

super gross. They appear to be trying to gin up legitimacy for a pay-to-play award? Hard to say for sure but it feels like a pretty safe bet they're impersonating their other "featured authors"

I read A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel

The Compromises of Bread-Making "[Milad's] progressive ideas make the reader want to root for him, only to give up a page later because of his lack of conviction. The author keeps this back-and-forth rhythm up until the very last… https://arablit.org/2026/10/27/the-compromises-of-bread-making/