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A screenshot from the videogame Silent Hill: Homecoming, featuring the main protagonist, Alex Shepherd, with his mother, Lillian Shepherd.

Fragile Traditions

By Phoenix Simms • January 9th, 2026

Porcelain as a material metaphor is a way to emphasize not just legacy, but the hands-on and time-consuming craft that creates objects of precious worth.

Don't Stop Believing
A still from the movie The Royal Hotel shows main characters Hanna and Liv standing in front of a retro car in a parking lot. Hanna stares somewhere past the viewer while Liv is turned away, gazing in another direction.

How Art Helped Me in 2025

By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026

We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.

Mind Palaces
A still from Adaptation features Nicholas Cage in a dual role as twin brothers, mid conversation in a dimly lit living room.

Bad Good Ideas

By Maddi Chilton • January 7th, 2026

I am on board, conceptually, with Adaptation’s ambition.

Past Presence
A screenshot of a pixelated living room from the game Whisper of the House, a cozy organization and puzzle-solving game.

Indie Sampler 2025

By Dr. Emily Price • January 6th, 2026

Was this just an excuse to demonstrate how many indie games I played this year? Anyway.

Noise Complaint
The band Agriculture poses moodily in front of a neutral backdrop.

Exploring Black Metal Ecstasy With Agriculture

By Ben Sailer • January 5th, 2026

Agriculture call themselves “ecstatic black metal.” Believe it or not, that isn’t a contradiction of terms.

Feature Story
The classic Boris Karloff-as-Frankenstein's-monster mug shot.

Children of the Charnel House

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025

The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2025

By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2025

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” – Mary Shelley

Con Artist

New York Comic Con 2025

By Sara Clemens • December 18th, 2025

Lol. Lmao, even.

Nonhuman Meditations
A still from the short film "Layla" shows the titular robot riding a skateboard in a skate park.

Layla was a Skater Bot

By Alyssa Wejebe • December 18th, 2025

Robotic characters in fiction have long provided another metaphorical arena for human stories to play out.

Here's the Thing
Two firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a controlled parking lot environment.

“But She’s Got a New Hat!”

By Rob Rich • December 17th, 2025

It’s not a new pattern of behavior or anything, but Rob is… just… so sick and tired of seeing “company bad” one week and then “new thing from company!” the next.

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