Calls for Reviews & Essays: November 2026

ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested in reviews of nonfiction broadly related to those topics, written for an interested general audience. If you are interested in writing for ARB, please check out our Procedures & Style Guide, and pitch us using the form below! For reviews, here are some titles coming out in November that we’d be interested in covering: Fiction Loba by Valentina Cano Repetto Nightjar by Santiago Sánchez-Cordero Weirdly Tuned Antennae by Radhika Singh ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden An Edge Sharp Enough by Jesse Q. Sutanto Line of Descent by Adam Oyebanji Virus: Annotated for Today’s Global Digital Humans (and Aliens) by Jayant V. Narlikar, edited by Sami Ahmad Khan Behind the Glass by Marc J. Gregson The Black Hole Whisky Gang: An Alternate History of Modern Detroit by…