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Category: Commentaries

October 22, 2021October 21, 2021 Chloe Moody Commentaries

Best Spooky Books to Read This Fall 

It’s fall, which means it’s time to curl up by the fire with some spooky music and read a scary book!

September 20, 2021September 21, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Surfing the Time Wave: Prescience in Frank Herbert’s Dune

Ever since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, the topic of time and our ability to interact with it has been at the forefront of science fiction.

August 2, 2021July 31, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Hypertext Fiction: The Literary Genre That Was Theorized Before It Was Written

Think if Wikipedia was a novel, or a Choose Your Own Adventure book existed online.

June 14, 2021June 13, 2021 Tarunika Kapoor Commentaries

Marvel in Color: The Evolution of Racial Diversity within the MCU

The MCU has had a less than stellar track record when it comes to racial diversity.

April 26, 2021April 23, 2021 Aaron Saliman Commentaries, Magazine

The surprisingly radical politics of Pixar’s WALL-E

It seems that our brave little robot is actually part of a much larger political-ecological revolution.

April 5, 2021April 12, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

To Delete or Not To Delete: Fanfiction and Lost Writing on the Internet

Fanfiction, and literature on the internet in general, raises new sorts of questions about the pitfalls and possibilities of archiving. How do you save not just an artifact, but all the software and hardware that is needed to run it?

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Commentaries

Editors’ Most Anticipated: Spring 2021

This Spring, the editorial team at the Berkeley Fiction Review wanted to highlight a selection of upcoming releases that we are especially looking forward to reading and viewing. These selections mean something special to each individual editor, so we hope this list inspires an interest in these works!

February 15, 2021February 24, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Commentaries

Comfort Books: What Are They and Why Are They Important?

A comfort book is just as the name suggests: a personally significant piece of literature, typically fiction, that brings a person solace and allows for an escape from reality.

February 1, 2021January 29, 2021 Tarunika Kapoor Commentaries

Watching and Waiting: The Slow Rise of South Asian Representation on Screen

Even so, I was disappointed to find that Mismatched had taken a narrative by an Indian-American author about Indian-American characters, with a unique premise about growing up American yet being submersed in Indian culture, and had set it entirely in India.

December 11, 2020December 4, 2020 Tarunika Kapoor Commentaries

Bury Your Gays (Literally): How The Haunting of Bly Manor Uses and Subverts the Trope

Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, the anthology series follow-up to the popular The Haunting of Hill House, may have all the makings for a classic ghost story, but don’t be mistaken—it’s actually a love story.

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