Berkeley Fiction Review

On the transformative power of female kinship: A Review of Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

The readers grow with the speaker; we are able to witness the experiences that shift her…
Persuasion vs. Pride and Prejudice: Which is the Better Love Story?

Both novels end with happy marriages and comment on the society of the time period, though…
A Message of Encouragement from Mark Salzman

If you like telling stories, if you like putting things into words, it’s going to come…
A Writer’s World – The good, the great, and the inbetween

I’m learning that maybe there’s somewhere in between being good and being great— the space that…
Borderline

By the year 2020, years of therapy had helped me accept a blistering status quo: the…
Pain as Power: Review of Witch King by Martha Wells

Martha Wells’s bestselling Murderbot series has been lauded for its aromantic and asexual representation, but coming…
The Subtle Art of Silliness: How Children’s Media Can Heal our Inner Child

Do you ever wonder why there seems to be a timeless essence to the stories little…
Classic Fantasy Tropes Upside Down: What Differentiates Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law from The Lord of the Rings

These tropes have been employed throughout literature in so many ways that one wonders: how is…
Los Globos

I had always thought that words can do anything. Explain and convey every feeling. If there…
How do we short-circuit control? A Review of Nonbinary by Genesis P-Orridge

While Genesis lived a life that may sometimes seem almost alien, s/he was still very much…