Diatribe: The Woman in the Well: Queer Myth, Indigenous Memory, and the Ambiguity of Resurrection

Book Review reproduced with permission from DEAN KALIMNIOU (reviewer) for Neos Kosmos newspaper. Dmetri Kakmi’s The Woman in the Well is not merely a novel. It is a cosmogony forged in fragments, a Gothic theogony of the antipodes. It gathers mythic sediments from Arabic folklore, Biblical and Qur’anic intertexts, Aboriginal songlines, and diasporic memory, then reconfigures them into a…

Excellent Reviews of Jack Dann’s Shadows in the Stone

In the latest edition of Asimov’s Science Fiction, a wonderful review has been posted for Jack Dann’s Shadows in The Stone, a powerful alt-history fantasy published back in November 2019. It reminds us that COVID-19 has had a serious effect on the publishing industry and our products published late in 2019 and early in 2020,…