Our first essay is now live: Cheryl Morgan’s “What is Fantasy, Anyway?”. It’s an essay I enjoyed the first time I read it, and that I still enjoy when I read it for the nth time.
In many ways, it’s exactly the sort of essay I intend Speculative Insight to champion: it’s thoroughly grounded in research, and it’s accessible to a general audience; it challenges and provokes, and does so thoughtfully; and it gave me a few books I really need to follow up (Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula in particular).
I hope you’ll get as much out of it as I did.