The Herring Review
Josh Herringreviewing great and terrible fantasy novels.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 7 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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2022 in Review
2022 - A Productive Year
Dear Substack friends - I’m sorry for not following through on my original project. As the list below illustrates, 2022 did not allow for as much leisure reading as I hoped; instead of a focus on woke SF or classic...
May Roundup: Substack Essays, Book Reviews, and Podcast Episodes
May has been a great month in terms of producing reviews and podcasts! Each month, I’m going to try to put together a list of everything I’ve published across all channels, and a projection of coming attractions. I run a podcast called The...
We Miss Metanarratives
Stories work because they tap into fundamental truths of human nature. Different authors realize different truths at different moments in time; reading widely across the centuries, as C.S. Lewis famously argued, helps propel us out of any r...
Keep Porn Out of Fantasy! Or, what's wrong with Jay Kristoff's Nevernight Trilogy
From the ancient Greeks to the present, good literature recognizes the existence of eros as part of human nature, and how a writer handles the erotic can make or break a novel.
From the ancient Greeks to the present, good literature recogn...
Real Men Kill Bugs, or Why I love Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Civilization carries with it certain privileges: security of property, rising standard of living, the ability to accurately forecast the future. Military science fiction poses the question, “What would humanity look like given a multi-centu...
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Writer, teacher, student, podcaster, reader. I write about great fantasy novels everyone should read (free) and good books that have been corrupted by woke ideology (subscription).
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