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Backlog

Repeating Being

By Gavin Craig • August 9th, 2019

Gavin muses about repetition while he muses about repetition while he muses about….

Boss Fight vs. KotOR

By Elijah Beahm • April 23rd, 2019

Elijiah Beahm reads the latest from Boss Fight Books.

Rookie of the Year

The Half-Baked Book Review: 1Q84

By Matt Marrone • April 12th, 2019

Matt Marrone had a brilliant idea for a series: Reviews of half-read books. Written for parents of small children.

The Burnt Offering

Metal is My Church

By Stu Horvath • April 4th, 2019

Stu Horvath ponders the alchemy behind taste as he reconsiders a “cheeseball” artist from his nascent metal education.

Grey text box with black or dark grey that reads "Commentary: A Tale"

Never is that Brief Flash Resented

By Levi Rubeck • March 14th, 2019

When a relationship is sent crashing, the unmoored self can be so easily thrashed upon the rocks—it’s necessary to reaffirm that sense of self, to rejoin that once-blended ego.

The Real Dr. Frankensteins

By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • February 12th, 2019

First there was Frankenstein, there there were the scientists inspired by Frankenstein.

Backlog

The Stiff Brown Cloth in Which the Knife is Kept

By Gavin Craig • February 9th, 2019

Knowing a fable’s end first can change its meaning. Especially when you remember endings are things of fiction.

Exploits Feature

Opening Statement

By Gavin Craig • February 1st, 2019

We experimented with a different format for this issue of Exploits. Gavin Craig explains.

The Rivers, The Sea

By Stu Horvath • January 30th, 2019

In tabletop RPGs, the system is a language.

Making Mulaka – Adventures in Not Making a Game

By Malindy Hetfeld • January 28th, 2019

Making Mulaka, a book released through Select Start Press is a about a group of people and their journey to make a game.

Backlog

Resolution State

By Gavin Craig • November 9th, 2018

With most videogames having half-baked conclusions when they don’t continue on indefinitely, Gavin Craig asks: Can you even have a story without an ending?

The Burnt Offering

Binge Reader

By Stu Horvath • October 29th, 2018

There are many books sitting on my shelves that I have read in a single sitting. I can’t tell you a single thing about most of them. Re-read responsibly, kids.

A Criticism of Adequacy

By Levi Rubeck • October 18th, 2018

Katamari Damacy blindsided videogames with style and simplicity, imploding the paradigm of violence for a brief, fantastic moment.

Rookie of the Year

The Running Matt

By Matt Marrone • September 25th, 2018

Matt Marrone muses where he’d escape to if faced with the dilemma of Stephen King’s The Running Man.

The Burnt Offering

Dungeons & Dragons Is a Double-Edged Sword

By Stu Horvath • August 15th, 2018

Dungeons & Dragons is the gateway into tabletop roleplaying, but for many players, it is also the final destination.

Procreation of the Wicked

By Astrid Budgor • August 10th, 2018

“They rip him apart as he grins, nerve-endings aflame with the liquor of pain, finally accepting an eternity of obliterative bliss.”

Another Look

Hood Cyberpunk

By Yussef Cole • August 7th, 2018

Cyberpunk stories don’t generally want, or need, to change society. It seems, rather, that they’re perfectly content partying in the rubble.

Feature Excerpt

A New York Adventure

By Alyssa Hatmaker • July 12th, 2018

The Blackwell Convergence captures the ambiance and rumble of “old” New York as it tells the story behind one author’s decades-long writer’s block.

Anthony Bourdain, silhouetted by a rising sun

Losing a Friend You Never Met

By Blake Hester • June 8th, 2018

I kept getting excited reading it, thinking maybe soon he’d put out another book. It felt like getting excited for your friends’ bands – you know, the actual good ones – to put out new albums

Epistolary Voicemail

By Levi Rubeck • May 31st, 2018

Enjoying a recent New Yorker online poetry experiment where Natalie Diaz and Ada Limón are explicitly communicating with each other, and we are shepherded on the atmosphere that extends between them.

Poetry at the Crossroads of Self and State

By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2018

Sharif, an American poet whose parents were exiled from Iran, is taking stock of her homes and houses in this and all of her work

Exploits Feature

Not Enough Time

By Stu Horvath • May 2nd, 2018

Look, we’re all going to die. The real tragedy is that we’ll leave unread books on the shelf when we do. Or is it?

A Tumultuous Smoke Break

By Levi Rubeck • March 28th, 2018

Emma Kidwell’s Got a Light? gracefully outlines the confusing and powerful internal combustion engine of sentiment, that heavy fire that drives us all to smoking and other activities hazardous to our health.

Excerpt

The Man of Many Ways

By Kate Gray • March 21st, 2018

Was it Mario who blinded the cyclops or Odysseus? I forget.

Polishing Up the Ol’ Dragonlance

By Levi Rubeck • March 21st, 2018

The War of Souls continues the Dragonlance series’ penchant for a willingness to let its characters fail—to be broken down completely while chasing meaningless power, given the chance for redemption, and convincing the reader when they stand or fall.

A man facing towards a grey, foggy area with a staff and a red cape in the wind. This is the cover art for Raymond A. Feist's book Magician.

Magician, Persona, and the Weight of Nostalgia

By Sam Desatoff • February 1st, 2018

I grew up as a citizen of Midkemia. Here, in this land filled with elves and dragons and ancient magicians who live in a realm apart from time, I came into adolescence and, more importantly, fostered a love for fantasy.

List-O-Mania – December 2017

By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2017

All the stuff that filled Team Unwinnable’s free time this month – now with TV and Movie categories!

List-O-Mania – November 2017

By Team Unwinnable • December 5th, 2017

Books, music and games to help you pass the time as you get ready for the holidays!

Rookie of the Year

The Last Word on When to Quit

By Matt Marrone • December 4th, 2017

Matt Marrone finds a faint glimmer of hope for Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer in the final Twin Peaks novel by Mark Frost.

List-O-Rama – October 2017

By Team Unwinnable • October 30th, 2017

On tap for October: tons of great games, music and books.

List-O-Mania – September 2017

By Team Unwinnable • September 29th, 2017

Team Unwinnable’s got some recommendations for ya…

Spilled Ink
A panel from the comic My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. In the middle of the two pieces of the panel it says "Some Differences." On the left hand side it has a picture of a woman concealing her breasts and wearing a pair of small underwear, the text "female body" underneath. The character is clearly excited over this image and she says "Fukken saved." On the right it has a more confused version of the character looking at a picture of a man posing in his underwear with the text "He's totally naked huh"

Unemotional Investments – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By Austin Price • August 30th, 2017

As unsparing as she is in presenting the minutiae of her feelings, Nabi has also constructed a formal shell that prevents her and reader both from actually engaging with the rawest elements of her story.

List-O-Mania – August 2017

By Team Unwinnable • August 25th, 2017

Need something to read, play or listen to? Unwinnable’s got a few dozen recommendations for ya.

The Burnt Offering

Nostalgia Bomb

By Stu Horvath • August 18th, 2017

Nostalgia is the bottomless pit into which we willingly throw ourselves.

List-O-Mania – July 2017

By Team Unwinnable • July 26th, 2017

Stuff that Unwinnable likes in July, 2017.

List-O-Mania, June 2017

By Team Unwinnable • June 27th, 2017

Summer is here, so we have plenty of music, books and games to recommend for your lazy weekends.

List-O-Mania, May 2017

By Team Unwinnable • May 31st, 2017

Another month, another batch of music, book and game recommendation from Team Unwinnable!

List-O-Mania, April 2017

By Team Unwinnable • April 25th, 2017

Need a book to read, a game to play or a playlist to listen to? Unwinnable’s got you covered with our April recommendations.

List-O-Mania, March 2017

By Team Unwinnable • March 30th, 2017

What’s Team Unwinnable playing, reading and rocking out to in March?

Spilled Ink

“Every Gundam Time…” – MSG: Thunderbolt Vol.2

By Austin Price • March 1st, 2017

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt is a tonal mess that knows irony can be used to underpin horror to shocking effect, but has no clue how or when to implement said irony.

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