Will there be love after an environmental apocalypse strikes? A new novel pops the question
An excerpt from ‘Darklands’, by Arnav Das Sharma. Author Arnav Das Sharma,
Now sitting down in the bleak nothingness of the Interstate, he imagined those eyes. But this time, he found them silent. And silence always confounded him. Harish was sitting near him, looking at the infant who had gone to sleep. The camp was quiet. He didn’t stir.
Easwaran stretched out his hands to draw Harish closer to him. Harish, giving in, shifted towards his father. Easwaran, thinking this would be a good time to introduce the infant to his son, tried to place the baby on the young boy’s lap. Harish, however, refused any such advances and recoiled from him.
Falling Apart
Davit Gabunia s cinematic debut novel, Falling Apart
, from which this excerpt comes, recalls Rear Window
in its dark exploration of voyeurism, and broke ground it its treatment of a male sexual liaison. Gabunia found fame aged twenty-two as the Georgian translator of Harry Potter, and later Shakespeare and Ibsen.
The people in the photo look like blue and black blotches. I can’t pick out Tina. Just last night she was lying in bed, the door to the bedroom wardrobe open, the wardrobe out of which she’d taken her clothes and packed them up. If last night she’d woken up and said,
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John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1915. American
liberals of the Gilded Age were suspicious of vast corporate
wealth, which they saw as a major cause of poverty. / Library of Congress
Speaking in New Haven in 1860, Abraham Lincoln told an audience, “I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat just what might happen to any poor man’s son.” After his death, Lincoln’s personal trajectory from log cabin to White House emerged as the ideal American symbol. Anything was possible for those who strived.
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Can you spot the Regular in this photo? (Hint: It’s the adult John Watson, played by
The Witcher’s Royce Pierreson.)
Photo: Netflix
Oh, of course not, because Netflix’s upcoming series
The Irregulars is set in 19th century England, where it was basically legal to use babies as mops. That’s why the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, was able to enlist a team of young ragamuffins as his eyes, ears, and foot-soldiers in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original mystery stories.
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The Irregulars focuses on this young band of brothers and sisters, but with a twist instead of helping Holmes catch criminals, they’ll be battling the supernatural.and apparently without much, if any, of Holmes’ help.
11 Otherworldly Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Written By Black Authors
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As a Black woman and nerd-content enthusiast, I sometimes struggle to find representation of blackness in mainstream fantasy and sci-fi. While I enjoy stories like
His Dark Materials,
Game of Thrones, and
Harry Potter, and they do include characters of color, the stories are largely told from white protagonists’ perspectives. So I often seek to add other narratives that allow Black and brown readers to more easily put themselves in the protagonist’s shoes, and fortunately, more of these stories are coming to the forefront. Here are 11 books by Black authors whose characters embrace magic and the supernatural.