#Reviewer

The Future Fire

thefuturefire

You may have noticed that we've started reviewing online SF/F zines alongside books and the usual stuff at http://reviews.futurefire.net/ We're going to try to do more of this, and I

The Spool

thespool

Over the weekend, our EiC sparked a conversation about reviewing movies and using or not using stars/letter grades/whatever to do so. We thought you all might appreciate some insight in

Deculture(怨嗟の鬼)

magicalgirlnoir

FFVII reviewers already doing damage control by saying "leave your preconceptions at the door" and "while Square Enix made some decisions that will clearly disappoint and piss off the core

Sunny Vagnozzi

SunnyVagnozzi

A thread on #authorship and author ordering. A few weeks ago an external reviewer for an academic job application wrote in their review that I did not have enough 1st-author

hannah anderson

sometimesalight

Unpopular opinion: Obsession with the details of someone else's suffering is a kind of objectification & akin to pornography. Just b/c the digital age has obliterated norms of privacy doesn't

Kam Reads and Recs

kamreadsandrecs

I’m feeling weirdly brave so I’m gonna do a self-promo tweet thread, apropos of NADA.Hi! I’m Kam, and I’m a Filipino book reviewer who’s been doing her thing since 2012.

Rafeif

RafeifIsmail

With my gigs cancelled for the foreseeable future, I've decided to do some more freelance work. Hmu if you need a: - Sensitivity reader - Book and/or film reviewer -

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

So, I used to be a straight A+ kid in grade school, throughout up until I finished my PhD coursework (94/100). My parents raised me self-assured (not cocky, but self-confident),

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

We often hear this question in debates about the Empire: 'Is there a single positive thing to be said, in your view, about the British Empire?' The answer is no

Rantz A. Hoseley

MysteryCr8tve

If you are reviewing a script, it's not about YOUR personal tastes. It's about whether the writer executes on intention. If you cannot be objective & rise above your preferences,

Carl Denham

LLCoolMage

Seeing that Lilo and Stitch callout and it reads like Mertle wrote it Imagine watching Lilo & Stitch only to find yourself empathising with these characters: Also has reeks of

Plasmotox

patankar_lab

The review process is a hard learning process for graduate students. Recently, we got a rejection that was not very useful (alright in itself) but had the lines "The value

Anjali Goswami

anjgoswami

Cranky Confessions: Coronavirus edition - I'm glad people are talking about how this pandemic is exacerbating inequalities in academia for women with kids. I'd be much happier if editors, funders,

Socially Distant

fokm

THREAD:@PWCSNews This is a slide from my 7th grade daughter's English class this morning regarding books they should read.Why is the school board allowing homosexuality to be pushed onto 7th

Tiju Abey Joseph

TijuAJ

This thread! https://twitter.com/vivekranjit/status/1248657079654445056 @Mystic_Riverr only passionate cinephile and reviewer I follow. Thought you'd like this thread maybe.

Stacey Lowery Bretz

SLBCER

If you are an early career scholar facing uncertainty about publications and responding to reviewers, I want to encourage you to revise and resubmit. You don't eat a porterhouse steak