December’s collection of recent fantasy and speculative fiction related essays and articles.

• As You Know, Bob… by Jeannette Ng at Uncanny Magazine
• Old Women in SF—the List by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley at SFWA
• 6 Speculative Fiction Books About Migration by Malka Older at Tor.com
• Shapeshifting Sorcery: The Persistence of Mesoamerican Magic by David Bowles at Fireside
• Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth: Part 1, A Species Built for Racial Terror by James Mendez Hodes at Strange Horizons
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Genre by Alexandra Erin at Uncanny Magazine
• The Power of Giving a Damn by Kameron Hurley at Locus