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First OTHERWORLDLY column at the NYT Book Review

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Amal El-Mohtar

My first column for the NYTBR is here! The print version will be in this week’s Sunday edition. In it I review Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits, Subterranean Press’ Weight of Words anthology, and Jo Walton’s Starlings. Here’s a taste: More than any … Continue reading →

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NPR Reviews: Nnedi Okorafor’s THE NIGHT MASQUERADE and Kim Purcell’s THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Amal El-Mohtar

A couple of reviews I wrote went up on NPR these last couple of weeks! Here are samplings of them: Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor The Night Masquerade picks up where Home left off, with Binti learning, through her newly enhanced … Continue reading →

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NPR Review: THIS MORTAL COIL by Emily Suvada

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

Nothing quite signals the approaching end of the year like the number of reviews I have left to write. This is probably the last one I’ll do (though won’t be the last one to appear), and it’s fitting that it … Continue reading →

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NYT Review: THE POWER by Naomi Alderman

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

If you blinked at the title, well, I’ve been doing that for about a week. I wrote a review for the New York Times. It’s my first time doing so. Many thanks to Bo Bolander for securing me a print … Continue reading →

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NPR Reviews: AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS by Rivers Solomon and THE RULES OF MAGIC by Alice Hoffman

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

So many amazing books have come out these last two months, and it’s been my privilege to read and discuss them. Here are another two. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon When I finished An Unkindness of Ghosts and put it … Continue reading →

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NPR Reviews: SHADOWHOUSE FALL by Daniel José Older + AUTONOMOUS by Annalee Newitz

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

More reviews! So many reviews! First, my review of Daniel José Older’s Shadowhouse Fall: Everything I loved about Shadowshaper is found in Shadowhouse Fall, but sharper and fiercer, pushed harder and farther. The love and loyalty Sierra and her friends feel for each other … Continue reading →

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NPR Review: THE RIVER BANK by Kij Johnson

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

My review of Kij Johnson’s The River Bank, delightfully illustrated by Kathleen Jennings, is up at NPR Books! Here’s a taste: The River Bank is set a year after the events of The Wind in the Willows, and takes up its familiar, much-beloved characters … Continue reading →

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Lightspeed Column: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER and THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

The September issue of Lightspeed magazine contains, among many other fine things, a column in which I review Theodora Goss’ The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and Catherynne M. Valente’s The Refrigerator Monologues. These books make a beautiful double bill, and reading … Continue reading →

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Reviews: AMBERLOUGH, RIVER OF TEETH, MORMAMA, THE CHANGELING

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

It’s been a while! As I try to line up my notes about all the beautiful things that happened in May, here’s a bouquet of reviews that went up recently. Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly for Lightspeed: As the present US … Continue reading →

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NPR Reviews: Can Xue’s FRONTIER & Cherie Priest’s BRIMSTONE

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Amal El-Mohtar

My reviewing schedule has had to slow down a bit recently, what with comps reading and teaching, but here are a couple that have recently appeared on NPR. First, Can Xue’s Frontier, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping: Pebble Town is … Continue reading →

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