A cozy fantasy arriving April 2027

Read courtesy of the publisher and NetGalley. It’s out at the end of January, 2026. This book is pretty great. For a reader even vaguely interested in the Europe and Ottoman Empires of the 14…

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these but since I’m editing a book about a knight right now, it’s been on my mind. Funnily enough, one of the ways it’s been o…

The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fa…

New year, new list. The first thing I have to say is that 2025 was a bad reading year for me. I found books I liked, but nothing I really, really loved. I also had a number of massive disappointmen…

The Goat Review presents an annual special: Anti-Peat's Favorite Albums of 2025. Find out what music our melodeath two-face can't leave behind while he chucks 2025 into the garbage fire where it belon...

In a way, I only discovered that Alan Moore was writing urban fantasy set in London by mistake. I was going through his Goodreads author page trying to discover some other work that I was sure exis…

I read The Einstein Intersection due to a fortuitious intersection of book friends talking. On one Discord, someone mentioned the book and it’s 60s pop-culture restylings of Orpheus, which re…

What would you risk to save someone you loved from a fate worse than death?A half-elven princess, grieving the loss of one father and fearing for the other.A loyal guardsman, torn between his oath …

As an aficionado of the archives, I’d been hearing of Jennifer Roberson’s Sword-Dancer on and off for some time. It’s one of those 80s books that never ruled the world but gained …

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Bradan grew up in Camelot and grew famous during the Summer of Love. He’s nearly immortal, a talented musician, but only a mediocre magician.That’s unfortunate because he’ll need more than pretty l…

The small island, which lay off the larger island of Daphaeu, obviously contained a secret of some sort, and, day by day, and particularly night by night, began to exert an influence on me…

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

I haven’t done one of these for well over a year. How do I know that? A lot of these links are from July 2024. But are they still interesting? I hope so. So, let’s see what links I have…