Cecilia D’Anastasio

  • This Week in Essays

    This Week in Essays

    A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!

  • The Truthening of Science Fiction

    Cecilia D’Anastasio explores the origins of science fiction via Lucian of Samosata’s True History. Lucian’s True History, a second-century satire of contemporary travel writing that took classical mythology and its monsters at face value. D’Anastasio questions the themes that define…