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Author: Autumn Wright

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Black and white glitch art suggesting a surging wave of binary code.

A Dialogue with Nick Capozzoli

By Autumn Wright • May 13th, 2025

“[M]ake fun of the video game industry at your own peril because whatever stupid thing is happening to us in that moment, it’s going to happen to you in about, say, a year and a half’s time.”

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A crop of Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc (1879), showing the young woman leaning wearily against a tree in a lush, overgrown garden.

A Dialogue with Grace Benfell

By Autumn Wright • April 17th, 2025

“I think people are very afraid – and I am very afraid, I’m not immune to this at all – of people laughing at their lives.”

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A screenshot from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows Sephiroth swing a sword in a wide arc as he stares stoically forward.

A Dialogue with Nic Reuben

By Autumn Wright • March 18th, 2025

[Pauses to move cat]

A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with Indy's arm mid-punch on a nazi's face in the desert

They Called Me Slurs While You Dragged Their Bodies

By Autumn Wright • February 25th, 2025

This isn’t about the Nazis.

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A screenshot from Season shows Estelle standing in a field of purple flowers staring up at monolithic statue.

Estelle and Blue sit and watch the young go by; or, The Final Communion

By Autumn Wright • February 14th, 2025

There is a dam that will bury a religion. But now a girl is riding a bicycle over its crest, and she will write a poem about how the wind felt against her cheeks.

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Wirt, Greg, and the bluebird Beatrice head deeper into the woods in a still from Over the Garden Wall.

The Loveliest Lies of All

By Autumn Wright • November 3rd, 2024

Not what, but where is over the garden wall?

A screenshot from the trailer of Children of Men where a post British man is walking by a line of riot cops in front of a vandalized wall

Checkmate: A Review of Overshoot

By Autumn Wright • October 3rd, 2024

It may feel like we are checked, but the missiles are still in the air, the destruction of in development fossil capital is still unrealized. It’s checkmate.

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An illustration from the manga Chainsaw Man shows a man with shaggy hair pensively reviewing a newspaper, coffee mug in hand.

Hoplophobia

By Autumn Wright • July 17th, 2024

In the great tradition of obscuring the true big bad of its story, the ostensible antagonist of Chainsaw Man is a compelling kaiju.

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Destruction from The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole, 1836.

The Worst Case Scenario

By Autumn Wright • June 11th, 2024

It’s worth asking whether people in the past thought they lived at the end times. It’s worth more to realize that despite the recurring sentiment, we do.

Art from the movie Blue Giant with the title on the left and a young saxophone player in jeans on the right photographed from a low angle just wailing on his horn

A Duet of Anime and Jazz: An Interview with Director Yuzuru Tachikawa

By Autumn Wright • May 21st, 2024

“My intent was to especially treat live performances like what would be done for an anime action scene.”

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