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Almost Ready to Face the Present

By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2022

Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence has reminded us that we are more resilient than we often believe ourselves to be.

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Putting the Beast to Bed

By Bryn Gelbart • March 31st, 2022

If there’s gotta be an ending, why not make it a happy one?

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The Absurd Pleasures of Atari 2600 Box Art

By Alexander B. Joy • February 28th, 2022

Unrepresentative box art once formed a key pillar of classic gaming.

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What We Never Saw

By Orrin Grey • January 31st, 2022

Where the Saw franchise didn’t go, but maybe should have.

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The Radium Age

By Noah Springer • January 10th, 2022

Science fiction from the early 20th century is often neglected. The Radium Age series seeks to fix that.

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D(E)fiant Love

By Melissa King • January 3rd, 2022

The world may be fucked, but we have each other.

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The Green Knight

By Clint Morrison Jr. • November 30th, 2021

For Shame!

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

By Evan Dennis • November 1st, 2021

Just like we did in the 90s between Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, we’re once again arguing over which of the three currently airing Star Trek shows is the best.

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“The Call of Cthulhu”

By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2021

There are a million ways to read “The Call of Cthulhu,” but this one sure is the prettiest.

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Tomie

By Yussef Cole • August 31st, 2021

She is the fantasy and the nightmare, all at once.

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The Shadow of the Cat

By Orrin Grey • August 1st, 2021

An old lady gets knocked off by her husband and servants in a relatively brutal opening, and the only witness is the cat. So far so good.

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Substack Dracula

By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021

The horror of Dracula, right in your inbox.

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Variations

By Autumn Wright • June 1st, 2021

What these recordings offer in their canonization of different variations is a juxtaposition that glimpses lives and careers.

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Queer Black Manhoods

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021

Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.

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A Tale of Two Godzillas

By Evan Dennis • March 31st, 2021

One of the longest enduring myths in cinema was how there were supposedly two distinct endings to 1962’s King Kong vs Godzilla.

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What’s the Message of “The Ugly Duckling” Anyways?

By Raven Wu • February 28th, 2021

“It matters little to be born in a duck-yard when one comes from a swan’s egg!”

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RECOURSE: The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down

By Autumn Wright • January 31st, 2021

Like Green’s novels, mine is not a love story.

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Two Minutes to Late Night – Bedroom Covers

By Ed Coleman • January 3rd, 2021

Our pick for best thing on the internet that makes the pandemic bearable.

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2010 – 2019

By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020

Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.

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Feminine Flailing

By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2020

It’s a representation of an archetypal feminine body, with little of the grace of that body’s tradition.

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Sewing Machines at Dawn

By Hannah Copestake • October 1st, 2020

Welcome to one of my favorite movies and my ultimate revenge film: The Dressmaker.

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Hades

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 1st, 2020

“Even though the gods have the power to grant him infinite strength, they choose to wield Zagreus as yet another pawn…”

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Phase IV

By Ciara Moloney • August 3rd, 2020

American man vs. communist ants.

The Case Against Reality

By James K. Anderson • July 27th, 2020

Is human perception akin to a species-specific user interface?

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Legendary

By Yussef Cole • July 1st, 2020

“Legendary is a show that does a great job highlighting artists and creatives and queer folk with caring attention, rather than crass appropriation.”

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

By Violet Adele Bloch • April 1st, 2020

She-Ra is about to enter its fifth season, and that’s because it’s good. It’s one of the goodest shows ever produced.

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Modernism and Auto-Tune

By Noah Springer • March 20th, 2020

“I see auto-tune playing the same role in hip hop in the last two decades as photography played in art in the 19th and early 20th century.”

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The Male Gaze is What’s Wrong with CATS, Actually

By Violet Adele Bloch • March 2nd, 2020

“Apparently, as he was making his latest film, Tom Hooper thought a lot about fucking these cats. But only the female ones.”

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The Outsider

By Stu Horvath • February 3rd, 2020

The strange case of two Holly Gibneys.

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The Goth Revival

By Stu Horvath • January 2nd, 2020

When the end of that world is nigh, goths will make the music to dance to.

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Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2019

Sara revisits the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special.

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No Laughing Matter

By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2019

To me, Joker is like a theatrically released omen.

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Skeletons in the Closet

By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019

“There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”

Exploits: Hackers

By Stephen Wilds • August 1st, 2019

“I hope you don’t screw like you type.”

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The Fear of Saying No

By Eleum Loughney • July 1st, 2019

“The man pontificates. American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman has an opinion and he has decided that it must be heard.”

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A Fable of Selfhood in the World of Tomorrow

By Violet Adele Bloch • June 3rd, 2019

World of Tomorrow’s Emilies aren’t quite people . . . They’re one person split in two, and this blurs the line between Self and Other into nonexistence.

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A Seven-Year-Old’s Taste in Music

By Ed Coleman • May 1st, 2019

“Having all the music in the world readily available has not stopped kids from obsessively playing their favorite songs over and over. And over. And over. And three more times.”

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Culture vs. Canon

By Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm • April 2nd, 2019

A long running discussion about culture vs. canon between Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm culminates in a thrilling head-to-head confrontation.

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You Were Never Really Here

By Harry Mackin • March 4th, 2019

Harry Mackin explores the sound design of suffering in You Were Never Really Here.

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Opening Statement

By Gavin Craig • February 1st, 2019

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

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