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Exploring Xianxia – with Mia Tsai
If you haven’t stumbled across one of the many popular xianxia dramas on your favourite streaming service, we might have to ask if you’ve been living…
3 years, 8 months ago
Loving monsters – with Roshani Chokshi
We all know that the original versions of fairy tales are so much darker than the sanitised ones that got handed down to us by the moralistic Victori…
3 years, 8 months ago
A lifetime of writing – with Jane Yolen
Having started out writing a neighbourhood newspaper which she sold to buy candy and comics, Jane Yolen is now the author of over 400 books for child…
3 years, 9 months ago
“But what if a woman wrote this?” – with Claire North
Many of us grew up reading the myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. We followed Herakles as he succeeded at one impossible task after anot…
3 years, 9 months ago
Folk horror – with Tori Bovalino
When the film The Blood on Satan’s Claw came out in 1971, reviewer Rod Cooper called it “a study in folk horror.” In 2003, when director Piers Haggar…
3 years, 10 months ago
Genre mash-ups: romance and crime with Freya Marske
Twists and turns, red herrings and mistaken identities… are we talking about a mystery or a romance… or both? While mysteries keep us on our toes, pr…
3 years, 11 months ago
Myth, magic and mothers – with Shauna Lawless
We often talk about a woman in a man’s world, but what does this really mean – and is it accurate? What is a man’s world? A place where women are exc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Feminism and noir with CL Polk
Private detectives with a dark past and a chip on their shoulder, a mysterious woman with a hidden agenda, and bodies piling up around them. You know…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rogues – with Ren Hutchings
Some of our favourite heroes are characters who might be deemed less than heroic by society. Smugglers, reckless hot-heads, gamblers and gangsters – …
4 years ago
Oppression & survival – with Sunyi Dean
While World War 2 saw greater opportunities for women on the home front while so many working-age men were away at war, there are many more examples …
4 years, 2 months ago