Made of Lines and Vines One Thousand and One Excuses By Saniya Ahmed • March 3rd, 2023 Orientalized media and tales aren’t replacements for actual people.
Mind Palaces Almost All About Eve By Maddi Chilton • March 3rd, 2023 She was flagrantly, cheerfully, and simply bisexual. Odd that her biographer did not seem to have noticed this.
Here Be Monsters Dead Space’s Unsettling Colonialism By Emma Kostopolus • March 2nd, 2023 If you’ve been reading this column, like, at all, you know that praise must always be coupled with loving criticism.
Past Presence Being So Normal By Emily Price • February 28th, 2023 Sally Rooney books are basically Victorian novels in millennial form, Middlemarch if Dorothea and Lydgate had cell phones and email.
The Beat Box Enter the Wu-Tang By Noah Springer • February 24th, 2023 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and something like the 18th anniversary of Noah listening to it.
Funeral Rites Capturing Wonder and Play in Kosmosaurs By Phillip Russell • February 23rd, 2023 Diogo Nogueira’s most recent release, Kosmosaurs, harkens back to the classic aesthetics of pulp science fiction novels, but with a twist – dinosaurs!
Feature Excerpt Lifelong Friends are Made in Dead and Dying Games By Brian Lee-Mounger Hendershot • February 22nd, 2023 Videogames lost something special when developers pivoted from server browsers to matchmaking. A small group of players show us what we’re missing.