Review of Ava Neumaier, “Baba Yaga in Chernobyl,” Luna Station Quarterly 67 (September 2026): 121-132 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
I loved the idea of this story — take a technological disaster like Chernobyl and reframe it in fantasy terms — but I was less swayed by the execution. There was a bit too much science still in it, and at times the attempts to reach the prosody and vocabulary of a fairy tale came up short.
