by Benjamin Murphy

Of Black Study – Joshua Myers

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Black Studies is most at risk when it is said to fit comfortably—uncomplicated and uncomplicating—astride a business-as-usual curriculum.

Singer Distance – Ethan Chatagnier

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Having self-elected into the contact genre, Chatagnier redirects Singer Distance away from the alien essence of this story form, suggesting that earthly issues more deserve our attention.

In the Black Fantastic – ed. Ekow Eshun

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Even surging past the final frontier, the Black fantastic remains aware of the constraints it aims to explode.

When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut

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Labatut’s novel is a stunning book about epistemic breaks – about sudden ideas that shatter across an age.

The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary – Molly Reid

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Which animal is on the brink of rapture?

GlassHouse – Louis Armand

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A detective story that ends with “[NO END]” may scarcely be called a detective story.

Terra Nullius – Claire G. Coleman

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It should come as no surprise that Coleman, an Australian Aboriginal author of the South Coast Noongar people, is particularly poised to enliven the tropes of the science fiction contact genre.

An Untouched House – Willem Frederik Hermans

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The square book fits easily into a jacket pocket, but the ninety-nine pages of narrative are so explosive as to make one feel like you’re smuggling a weapon.