On this day 185 years ago Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France. One of the most imaginative writers of the nineteenth century, he wrote about air, space, and underwater… Read more »

What is steampunk? Is it important? Does genre have an important role in literary culture? Or is genre troublesome, as Soren Kierkegaard may have unintentionally implied when he wrote that… Read more »

— This is an occasional series by Jean-Christophe Valtat, author of Aurorarama, which releases in June from Melville House. Aurorarama is the first installment in Valtat’s The Mysteries of New… Read more »

To our reader yet unfamiliar with New Venice, beyond a few unclear and mysterious dreams, it has been decided that a few words of introduction might not prove quite useless.… Read more »