Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Zachary GillanTitle: Authority by Jeff VanderMeerHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARBRobert AickmanBothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad HussainBohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry HeimAnnihilation, Acceptance, and AbsolutionVanderMeer’s blogVanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; FinchAnn & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark StoriesMKUltraStanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena BormashenkoAndrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and StalkerAlex Garland's AnnihilationCormac McCarthy's The RoadKay Chronister's Desert CreaturesRoland Emmerich’s The Day After TomorrowDamon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The LeftoversBruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated SeriesTimothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other workVanderMeer’s Hummingbird SalamanderThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsJean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
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