In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its marauding bass lines, angular guitars, and psychedelic effects, Blue Lines built on the Caribbean soundsystems and nascent rave scene of the 1980s while also looking ahead to the group's signature blend of epic cinematics and lush downtempo. In the process, Blue Lines i...

“This is not your grandma’s fairy tale… Brilliant.” —The Washington Post“The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner … [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession.”***—The Associated Press***One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Ca...

In the spring of 1932, with Londoners terrorised by a series of brutal murders, the private detective agency of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly opens its doors in Bloomsbury. The first person to call on their services is a worried Lady Arthur Conan Doyle. She tells of mysterious events at 221 Baker Street - and a premonition that the London murders signal terrible danger for mankind. Their investigation will take our intrepid heroes into a world of séances and spirits. Aided by the...

Enter the world of supernatural crime investigation - In the autumn of 1934 a channel crossing to France takes a paranormal turn for private detective, Andrew Singleton, when he sees an extraordinary mirage and has an encounter with a lady in white. On arrival in Paris he is quickly drawn into a very unusual murder investigation in which the victim appears to have died of fright in his sleep. Who caused this death and how? And could there be some connection to Singleton's experience on the...

“This is not your grandma’s fairy tale… Brilliant.” —The Washington Post“The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner … [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession.”***—The Associated Press***One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Ca...

The drop in Spanish birth rates in 1998 to their lowest level of 1.1 births per woman was accompanied by a boom in publishing about motherhood. New narrative forms, ranging from blogs to diaries to comics, expressed women’s experiences, including ambivalence about motherhood in the face of societal pressures. Narrating Infertility in Spain, the first study of infertility in post-2008 female-authored texts, analyzes discussions of adoption, assisted reproduction, egg and sperm dona...

Every weekday morning, as the sun rose above Sixth Avenue, a peerless crop of women-frames poised, behavior polished, networks connected, and bodies generally buffed to a high sheen-were herded by the cattle prod of their own ambition to one particular building. They're smart, stylish, and sophisticated, even the one found dead in her office.When stylish Hillary Whitney dies alone in a locked, windowless conference room at the offices of RAGE Fashion Book, her death is initially ru...

Jesus didn't advise and counsel peace. He didn't give them a prescription for peace. He didn't suggest that his men should cool it, relax, just be peaceful. He bestowed it upon them. He seemed to have been able to put it inside of them. He gave them peace of his own that was to become their own. It was not advice, it was bestowed. It's a beautiful gift especially when you realize what peace meant to Jesus. Peace for him, for them or for us is not the absence of conflict, war is not the opp...

In this action-packed true crime thriller, from a perspective and insight that has never been put into print, you will not be able to help but fall inside the mind of the author/character Nick Bourland. Set in Portland, Oregon, Flail’s Kitchen delivers a heartfelt story of a young man battling with addiction, love, and internal conflict over the criminal lifestyle he found himself devoured by. Nick and his cousins are on a crime spree with no limits as they run through the Portland Metro, ...

The July/August 2026 issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Tia Tashiro, P. Djèlí Clark, Jana Bianchi, Sam J. Miller, Rida Altaf, and Tara Sim; reprint fiction by Catherynne M. Valente; essays by Ryka Aoki, Lizbeth Myles, Hana Lee, and Marissa Lingen; poetry by Chisomaga Umenyi, Gwendolyn Hicks, Laura Cranehill, and E. A. Bourland; interviews with P. Djèlí Clark and Rida Altaf by Caroline M. Yoachim; Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Flower Crown...

The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a “traditional” Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society. His gender-specific beliefs carry over into his teachings for the house churches, where only free married men are eligible to serve as leaders, teachers, and preachers, while women are expected to take up the subordinate female domestic roles of wife, mother, and house...

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe’s colonial empires and the contemporary world made in their wake. Black and gold have thus always been conjoined and yet set in opposition: blackness as negation, gold as universal standard of value. Black & Gold is a genealogy of this seeming contradiction—a global history of value told through...