Mind Palaces Booking It (Vol. 2) By Maddi Chilton • August 6th, 2024 The thrilling conclusion to Maddi’s quest to read the entirety of the International Booker Prize longlist.
Mind Palaces Booking It (Vol. 1) By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2024 Maddi sets out to read the International Booker Prize longlist, 13 books from around the world that were translated into English within the last year.
Funeral Rites Sailing the Ashen Sea with Tephrotic Nightmares By Maddi Chilton • May 23rd, 2024 The strongest character in the setting – the most vivid, the most realized, and the most overwhelming – is the Ashen Sea itself.
Mind Palaces Empathetic Magic By Maddi Chilton • May 2nd, 2024 Wiktor’s entire mode of interaction with the world is one of applied empathy, concentrated and made into magic through the indefinite occultisms of thaumaturgy.
Mind Palaces Lost in Translation By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2024 I’m reading War and Peace for the first time, and probably the only time, and I’d like to do it right.
Mind Palaces And the Crowd Goes Wild By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2024 It’s never quite established what Rollerdrome’s sport is reflecting in the society that watches it.
Mind Palaces Mostly Normal People By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024 In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.
Mind Palaces Shelf Fodder By Maddi Chilton • December 29th, 2023 The sacralization of literature – the item, not the concept – becomes annoying at best when faced with just how much of our literary ephemera is garbage.
Mind Palaces I Will Come Up With a Punny Title I Promise By Maddi Chilton • October 31st, 2023 Somewhere along the way in Redfall’s development someone should have asked: What is this game, and why are we making it?
Mind Palaces A Secret Third Thing By Maddi Chilton • September 27th, 2023 The Venture Bros. premiered in 2004. Seven seasons later, it finally gets its finale, or what amounts to one.