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A wanderer with terrible power, Sankofa, the protagonist of Hugo Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor’s latest…
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Dec 16
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A certain amount of escapism through books would have been more than understandable in 2020. (And by “a certain…
Dec 4
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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…
Nov 30
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Ready Player Two, the sequel to Ernest Cline’s ‘80s reference-laden 2011 novel Ready Player One, released on November…
Nov 30
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“Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?” Ready Player One’s…
Jul 10
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It feels fair to say that few spans of time in recent memory have called for a good distraction more desperately…
Jul 7
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The coronavirus pandemic and its attendant shutdown has had a way of warping one’s sense of time—alternately making…
May 7
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The mightier the villain does not always mean the mightier the hero. Here are 26 fictional characters who met their…
May 4
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Early in Ilze Hugo’s debut novel The Down Days, a thief named Sans contemplates American apocalyptic films…
Apr 24
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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…
Feb 8 2020
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Despite being one of the entertainment industry’s biggest events, the Academy Awards are not immune to the…
Jan 14 2020
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The Vanished Birds opens with a tale about a boy who falls in love with a space captain. She visits his planet…
Jan 9 2020
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Netflix’s The Witcher is a largely dour series, a gritty fantasy epic clearly meant to capture the same audience as G…
Dec 20 2019
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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…
Dec 13 2019
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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…
Oct 28 2019
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When André Aciman announced he was penning a sequel to his 2007 novel, Call Me By Your Name, which was the basis for …
Sep 17 2019
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Hulu bought the rights to adapt The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale,…
Aug 12 2019
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It starts with tiny things: ribbon, bells, perfume. When the people of an unnamed island in Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory…
Jun 3 2019
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In Sarah Gailey’s debut novel, Magic For Liars, twin sisters Ivy and Tabitha Gamble grow apart after Tabitha is…