ICYMI: Links round-up, January–March 2021

• Desirée Custers on Arab and African Science Fiction: (re)claiming the past, reflecting on the present, and envisioning the future. (26 February)
• Ziya Jones interviews Zeyn Joukhadar about her new novel The Thirty Names of Night: “It’s Powerful to Let People Love You with a Name that You Chose for Yourself”, at Hazlitt. (2 March)
• Okuma Yuichiro interviews Liu Cixin on Humanity, Crisis, and Changes at Chinese Literature Today. (5 March)
• Aliette de Bodard at LocusMag: excerpt from the interview ‘Where Is It Written?’ (15 March)
• Ng Yi-Sheng at Facebook on Zen Cho’s 2020 novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water ... some useful commentary. (21 March)
• Emad El-Din Aysha interviews Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Istvan on The Golden Mean Between Local and Global SF, at The Levant News. (25 March)
• Marc de Faoite’s review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun at The Vibes.com. (27 March 2021)
• Jaideep Unudurti reviews the latest tome from J. Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna, Blaft Publications’ encyclopedic Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India at Open Magazine. (26 March)
• The latest Strange Horizons issue is a Palestinian Special. (29 March)