This year’s Review—“Fantastic Futurisms: Institutions, Definitions, Deviations”—works to remind us that the E3W Review of Books refers not to a place but to a project. Projects, by definition, are oriented toward the future: they are built on the belief that the world can be not just different but better. Yet they also, first, require that assessment of the world extant—how it is now, and how it came to be this way. The reviews collected here do that work, providing reassessments of the past, characterizations of the present, and imaginings of a better future.
In applying those same lessons to the work of the E3W Collective itself, we have again united the E3W Review of Books and the 2025 Sequels Symposium under the same title.Insofar as much of our work is centered on solidarity and coalition-building—in much the same way as the Third World sought to organize itself to resist the influences of the First and Second World—we recognize the value of ensuring both halves of E3W are in dialogue. To that end, we are delighted that this year’s shared theme celebrates the works of our Sequels Symposium keynote speakers, Dr. Jenna N. Hanchey (PhD Communications 2017) and Dr. Emily Bloom (PhD English 2012).
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