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Run It Back
A black-and-white close-up photograph of author Truman Capote as a young man.

1966

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 28th, 2024

Much like Isherwood, Capote’s writing relies on a gay fly-on-the-wall positioning.

Noise Complaint

May 2024

By Ben Sailer • May 24th, 2024

There’s no reason to believe there’s some sort of age cutoff where your place on stage has to be replaced with a seat at the bar.

Funeral Rites
Three shadowy figures are propped up by trios of long poles, though whether they've been impaled or are using them as spindly methods of travel is unclear.

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.

Feature Excerpt

An Attempt Against Muscular Demonstrations of Power: Child of Light at Ten

By Luis Aguasvivas • May 22nd, 2024

A decade after its release, the whimsy of Ubisoft Montreal’s Child of Light still twinkles.

Noah's Beat Box
A close-up photo of Drake on the Grammy Awards red carpet. A red "X" has been drawn over his face.

Post-Truth Beef

By Noah Springer • May 21st, 2024

This may become known as the first post-truth beef in hip hop.

Here's the Thing

MST3K and My New Appreciation for Bad Movies

By Rob Rich • May 14th, 2024

The semi-recent discovery of a perpetual Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon has made Rob realize that a lot of bad movies really aren’t so bad. On paper, anyway.

Forms in Light
A wide shot of the ruins of Göbekli Tepe taken on a bright, sunny day.

Stone to Screen

By Justin Reeve • May 10th, 2024

The monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe offer plenty of potential for modern fields of study including videogame level design.

Noah's Beat Box
A still from Poor Things shows main character Bella gazing out from a stone balcony at a cotton candy-colored sunset.

Going to Extremes

By Noah Springer • May 9th, 2024

Drawing lines between Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Nikos Nikolaidis’ cult favorite Singapore Sling. Did the latter influence the former?

Casting Deep Meteo
A birds-eye view of the PAX East 2024 show floor, featuring a zillion gaming-related booths and even more people milling around them.

PAX East 2024: Family Time

By Levi Rubeck • May 8th, 2024

We wandered the show floor and the convention center for two days, getting boba, shitty pizza and standing in plenty of lines. All in service of the greater question: What’s the youth take on gaming today?

Area of Effect
Two characters from Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley gaze up a lovely blue lighthouse.

A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

By Jay Castello • May 7th, 2024

The garden is not the park, although the tension of its civilizing influence is never resolved.

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