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The Best Games of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2021

2021 was a year full of great games – some brand new, and some seeing a triumphant return after literal (as in, not hyperbolic) government censorship.

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The Best TV Shows of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2021

So 2021 ended with our having to once again (maybe?) stay anchored to our homes by our couches. We could be doing a lot worse than this year’s TV offerings.

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The Best Movies of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2021

2020 was a year of establishing a new normal in terms of media consumption, specifically with film, and this year continued the trend.

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The Best Music of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2021

Compared to 2020, 2021 was a not-nearly-as-terrible-but-still pretty-awful year. For musicians and their fans at least, it was a marked improvement.

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The Best Books of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2021

Pick up one of these books and disappear into a different world, maybe one not populated by new COVID variants.

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I read over 100 books in 2021 and here are the 30 best

By Amanda Hudgins • December 22nd, 2021

What I’m going to do here is talk about the best books I read in 2021.

A close up of the cover art from Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful featuring a young Vietnamese woman with a stylish 20's bob looking down.

more genre fiction by people who aren’t cis white dudes

By Amanda Hudgins • October 15th, 2021

it seems very odd that we associate science fiction with near identical looking white guys when the first science fiction novel was written by a goth teenage girl who lost her virginity on her mothers’ grave.

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50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again

By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021

Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.

I Got Myself a Plan: Tremors (1990) on a Very Fancy New Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • January 22nd, 2021

When I was a kid, I had a short list of favorite monster movies that had come out during my lifetime, and Tremors was right at the top.

World Tour

Germany

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 4th, 2021

Bring out your beers and your bratwurst, and let’s get going! On tap: Herzog’s Aguirre and Wenders’ Wings of Desire.

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