Mateo Askaripour's sophomore novel This Great Hemisphere is a sprawling speculative-fiction narrative that tackles racism, classism, and the perpetual power struggle of politics. But it also delivers ...

I’ll never forget the moment in Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” when subterranean train tracks first appear stretching off into a dark tunnel. That 19th-century metaphor pounded ...

his short tells a story about what would happen if every hemisphere is at war, and only one can remain. The Northwestern Hemisphere, led by the U.S., moves fast, setting its sights on the weaker ...