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Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction

Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction

Allison Epstein Explores the Benefits of Creating Your Own Version of a Canonical Mainstay

By Allison Epstein | February 25, 2025

From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

“We’re raising eidolons, real and not-real, tales that move and breathe and stand side by side, speaking Troy into the future.”

By Maria Zoccola | January 14, 2025

From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the Essential Role of Literary Reimaginings

From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the Essential Role of Literary Reimaginings

“To tell such tales again is to tell them for the first time.”

By Joel H. Morris | March 14, 2024

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

“Maybe the sort of multicultural representation we see in recent Regency romances can be a kind of medicine.”

By Sayantani DasGupta | June 16, 2023

On Reimagining the Infinite Dramatic Scope of Shakespeare and His Immortal Characters

On Reimagining the Infinite Dramatic Scope of Shakespeare and His Immortal Characters

Kathryn Barker Recommends Five Cracking Titles That Rework the Bard's Famous Plays

By Kathryn Barker | January 6, 2022

Nghi Vo, Shelley Parker-Chan, and Stephanie Ybarra on Interrogating the Canon of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Nghi Vo, Shelley Parker-Chan, and Stephanie Ybarra on Interrogating the Canon of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre">This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 11, 2021

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Pride and Prejudice">Janice Hadlow on Mary Bennet, the Overlooked Sister in Pride and Prejudice

By New Books Network | May 15, 2020

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

By Jennifer S. Cheng | November 20, 2019

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