Dr Amy Borsuk

Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles!
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I'm embarrassed I didn't even think of all the wild and weird film adaptations out there, let alone this one! A bunch of aspects of the book now make even more sense in relation to it. Thank you for reading the review!

Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!

I'm also resigned to admit that that 2016 RSC Tempest production will haunt me until I die.

My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!

Good morning it’s their day

Against a dark green background with autumnal branches, white text "Available to request on Netgalley" above an eReader with the cover for THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🚨AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY!🚨

RUN, don't walk, over to Netgalley to request an eARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's darkly romantic eco fantasy of gods and forests, from the perspective of a traumatised "war hero" longing for peace.

Request geni.us/SolarisNG
Preorder geni.us/godsmb

Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?

We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac

I'm all set, but thank you, that's very kind of you to ask!

Passed my Life in the UK test now I gotta fill in a form, overshare all aspects of my life in a stack of documents, and pay the government an exorbitant amount of money one more time and then y'all are stuck with me permanently

*cracks knuckles* Foyles, Forbidden Planet, Gay's the Word, London Review Bookshop, Brick Lane Books, pay a visit to Goldsboro in Cecil Court. The V&A cafe is gorgeous (I have way better Oxford cafe recs), lmk if you want theatre recs and what kind

I'm sorry, Em ❤️

Red Kite: A large bird of prey twists into a dive, head down, wings outstretched, tail flared. The bird is reddish brown with silver patches on wings and black wing tips. 1990 13 youngsters (from Wales & Sweden) released in Chilterns, England. Wild populations established in England and Scotland and further releases occurred in NI and Republic of Ireland. Red kite population has seen a spectacular recovery, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023. In the last 5 years, we now regularly see Red Kites on the North Norfolk coast.

"Red kite"
The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023.
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White text against a fiery orange background: ARCs are ready! Dark and romantic eco- fantasy from the man’s POV A book that feels like a Hozier yell sounds For fans of The Wolf and The Woodsman and Princess Mononoke Learning to Survive after sacrifice Gods as embodiments of nature Bisexual MC Recovering from a life of pointless war Wild forests need wild guardians Protect her, or burn together On the right, a 3D hardback of THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨

Calling all UK/IE/CAN/US Reviewers & booksellers, pop a wolf🐺in the comments to be in with a chance of receiving an ARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social
's THE GODS MUST BURN: where a disgraced war hero is transformed into the Wolf God against his will.

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Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera.

I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .

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I love these questions. I think that considering science as a mode of creativity, imagination, w a structured form of inquiry helps make 'science' feel less imperatively realist(i.e. having to prove a future). But ofcourse a lot of SF doesn't use the S as a mode of inquiry, but one of explanation...

Slowly making my way through these - the Le Guin prize is always a great way to discover incredible work

Happy 10 years in the UK to meeeee 🥳🥳✨️

It's not every day I see Antonio Gramsci (Italian political philosopher, commentator on the shifting world order, political prisoner of the Mussolini regime) name-dropped in a piece of literary analysis, and this is a good name-drop.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Hi hello! They definitely go together like wine and cheese! Also your ability to describe intimate and vulnerable emotions has moved me multiple times, it feels like a watercolour of consciousness.

Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

If you want an emotional double-feature experience I highly recommend reading Remember You Will Die (Eden Robins) and Notes From a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) simultaneously or in close succession. Such loving encapsulations of queer life and memory, and acts of remembering

The ending so moved me in college that I threw the book across the room in outrage.

"Trump’s margents are an architectural representation of the world he inherited in the 20th and 21st century, as much as the world he wishes to make" Astute and fascinating analysis as always!

You got this!
unsolitcited editor advice: I've had authors uno-reverse where they do the rewrites w/o cuts &annotate thoughts on what is and isn't working, turning it into a conversation to help from that paralysis. Obvs editors differ but I know yours is smart and generally open to conversation!

Maiden is excellent, soooo excited to read The Great Work!

The difference between video game D&D and human D&D is that when Karlach shares her story and says she hasn't had a hug or even a pat on the shoulder in so long, the game just gives some dialogue options, but in a party I would cast mage hand and pat her on the head

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