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Always Autumn
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.

Always Autumn
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?

Always Autumn
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.

Always Autumn
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.

Always Autumn
A screenshot from Goodbye Volcano High shows a three-piece band of teenage anthropomorphic animals getting read to thrash some chords.

When the Fire Falls From on High; Or, the Meteor Is Not a Metaphor

By Autumn Wright • October 10th, 2023

Comparing the animation in scenes that appear both in its 2020 reveal trailer and the final product, it’s obvious that three years of something bad happened to Goodbye Volcano High.

Always Autumn
Wakanda Forever's Prince Namor wearing a regal feathered serpent headdress in his underwater domain.

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part II: The Ones Who Stay and Fight

By Autumn Wright • July 13th, 2023

What does it mean to be born of the dead?

Always Autumn
The sparely-lit stage of a punk show, camera moved during shuttering to create a purple and yellow-blurred portrait of a drum kit, a guitarist, a singer.

Last Night I Went to a House Show

By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023

Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”

Always Autumn

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part I: Whose Apocalypse Is This?

By Autumn Wright • February 9th, 2023

What does the beauty of a world born anew look like from the depths?

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.

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