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Biking the Beat

By Autumn Wright • February 1st, 2023

“After biking some 2,000 miles in the city last year, my memories of my new home are tied to rides and their soundtracks.”

Always Autumn
A still from the internet phenomenon "Too Many Cooks" showing the recurring serial killer character in a 1980s kitchen with a bloodied face and apron.

There are Decapitations

By Autumn Wright • November 10th, 2022

Too Many Cooks is at once an absurdist comedy sketch and a critical cautionary tale, full of pastiche referents like “relics of a time that we long for but shouldn’t return to.”

Always Autumn
Wispy grey smoke swirling across a field of black.

Another Meaning of the Words

By Autumn Wright • October 12th, 2022

The alphabetical arrangement of Alaska for Looking brings attention to the nonmaterial components of text as a mode, and to the construction of the novel as a form rather than material object.

Always Autumn
The title character of the manga Chainsaw Man, a man in shirt and tie with sharp teeth and a chainsaw for a head.

Realism, Reality and the Real

By Autumn Wright • September 13th, 2022

A statement of intent.

Always Autumn
The mane of a white horse is seen from behind. Superimposed on the whole image, a large dark crack splits the a jagged vertical line.

…the History of Me

By Autumn Wright • July 5th, 2022

I was merely a college graduate dropped into a crippled market and a housing crisis, fleeing towards the suburbs of south Florida. It was not the land, but myself that felt alien.

Always Autumn
Sunset over the Florida Everglades.

Summer’s End: a disjoint on home

By Autumn Wright • October 1st, 2021

“There was one question I could never answer. Why Autumn?”

Always Autumn
A young man and woman stand at a rusty railing, looking towards a distant sun breaking through stormy clouds.

Sheltering Sky

By Autumn Wright • August 26th, 2021

Weathering With You as (post-)sekaikei.

Pentimenti: A Review of Chicory

By Autumn Wright • July 12th, 2021

The canvas is never blank.

Always Autumn
A green and white exit sign.

Egress

By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021

Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.

Exploits Feature

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.

Always Autumn
A ruined highway surrounded by rubble.

Post-Post-Apocalyptic: Come Along with Me (Part 2)

By Autumn Wright • May 4th, 2021

The concluding part two of Autumn’s exploration of the post-post-apocalypse.

Always Autumn
A drawing of the rapture.

Post-Post-Apocalyptic: Come Along with Me

By Autumn Wright • March 23rd, 2021

What comes after what comes after the world ends?

Exploits Feature

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.

Always Autumn

Loxahatchee Boys

By Autumn Wright • January 27th, 2021

There is a queerness to winter in Florida.

Always Autumn

Winter’s Wind

By Autumn Wright • December 21st, 2020

If death is inevitable in Outer Wilds, then so is Timberhearth.

Always Autumn

Sagittarius

By Autumn Wright • November 22nd, 2020

“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”

Always Autumn

There Are Many Ways to Apocalypse.

By Autumn Wright • November 2nd, 2020

As much as it is about the extraordinary ways in which people live their normal lives, Adventure Time is comprised of endings.

Always Autumn

Weird Autumn

By Autumn Wright • September 22nd, 2020

It is the first day of fall, so return, return, return.

Always Autumn

Fall is an Ending and it is Ending.

By Autumn Wright • September 11th, 2020

“Autumn is the ending of things and we are in its third stanza.”

Feature Excerpt

Sticks and Stones Might Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me

By Autumn Wright • May 4th, 2020

Marvel’s New Warriors series is an attempt to land the most expensive “how ya doing fellow kids” meme in the history of late capitalism.

What To Do With All This Girldick

By Autumn Wright • August 28th, 2019

“Gaming as a trans person can kinda suck. Some might say games are bad. But what if, dear readers, games are good?”

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