Articles by Chris Barsanti
September 26, 2012
Those Grand, Wicked Futures: The Library of America’s American Science Fiction: Nine Classics Novels of the 1950s 9
From Bester to Heinlein, Sturgeon to Matheson, this collection digs deep into the decade’s traumas and comes up with visionary gold.
May 14, 2012
Worlds Beyond Your Ken: A Guide to the Nebula Awards 6
The six novels nominated for this year’s Nebula Awards run from clanking steampunk fantasy from a first-timer Genevieve Valentine to heady and otherworldly linguistic theorizing courtesy of China Miéville—wonders await.
October 27, 2011
When Film Mattered: Pauline Kael’s The Age of Movies 9
Pauline Kael argued about the movies as though her life depended on it. But that’s not what makes this an essential read for all the uninitiated, nor is it her depth of knowledge, her wit, or her ability to turn a line; it’s that she was so often right.