Author: Amy Brady

Amy Brady is the Senior Editor of the Chicago Review of Books and Deputy Publisher of Guernica Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Dallas Morning News, The Awl, Literary Hub, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. Follow her on Twitter at @ingredient_x.

by Amy Brady July 18, 2017

Interviews

A Dry Dystopia Inspired by ’80s Spain

Jesús Carrasco creates a stark, familiar world in ‘Out in the Open’

by Amy Brady June 23, 2017 0

Features

The Best Nature Writing of 2017 So Far

12 books on flora, fauna, and the environment.

by Amy Brady June 13, 2017 1

Burning Worlds

Looking Ahead to the 26th Century

An interview with Aaron Thier, who relandscapes the world in ‘Mr. Eternity’

by Amy Brady May 26, 2017 0

Reviews

Incendiary Ghosts: An Interview with Kit Reed

We spoke with Kit Reed about her latest work ‘Mormama,’ its political undercurrents, and that time Kit came face-to-face with a real-life ghost in England.

by Amy Brady May 12, 2017 0

Features

4 Translated Novels You Might Want to Read, According to Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover, translator of the Haitian novel ‘Hadriana in All My Dreams,’ recommends her favorite works in translation.

by Amy Brady May 8, 2017 0

Burning Worlds

Why Climate Fiction Matters: An Interview with Malcolm Sen

According to NASA, 2016 was the hottest year on record since scientists began recording global temperatures in 1880.

by Amy Brady April 18, 2017 0

Interviews

Reversing Climate Change: An Interview with Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken and a coalition of more than two hundred scientists, researchers, fellows, writers, economists, financial analysts, architects, companies, agencies, NGOs, activists, and other experts have formed Project Drawdown to gather one hundred of the most viable ways to “draw down” carbon from the atmosphere.

by Amy Brady April 13, 2017 0

Burning Worlds Features Interviews

11 Climate Fiction Authors Share Their Favorite Books in the Genre

What can fiction tell us about climate change that scientific reports can’t? We asked 11 climate fiction authors.

by Amy Brady April 4, 2017 0

Reviews

Aliens, Robots, and Politics: An Interview with Sylvain Neuvel

We spoke with Neuvel about his inspiration for the series, his interests in geopolitics, and—most importantly—what he thinks real aliens would sound like if they ever visit us on Earth.

by Amy Brady March 8, 2017 0

Reviews

‘The Night Ocean’ Brings Lovecraft Back From the Dead

In his beguiling new novel, ‘The Night Ocean,’ Paul LaFarge offers not one, but several alternate life histories of the famous horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft.