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Here Be Monsters
The classic pink Tamagotchi, the plain look on its pixellated face belying the bottomless chasm of its need.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Terror of Tamagotchi

By Emma Kostopolus • May 31st, 2024

This is not a cute piece of nerd nostalgia, but a brutal PsyOp designed to drive us to the brink of despair.

Mind Palaces
A triplet of the covers for the books What I'd Rather Not Think About, Lost on Me, and Undiscovered.

Booking It (Vol. 1)

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2024

Maddi sets out to read the International Booker Prize longlist, 13 books from around the world that were translated into English within the last year.

This Mortal Coyle
The character known as Gothic Writer from the mobile game Game of Vampires: Twilight Sun, sporting two neat braids and carrying a notebook.

The Gothic Writer from Game of Vampires

By Deirdre Coyle • May 29th, 2024

Do I love this game, or do I hate it? Am I being a downer because of latent mobile game snobbery?

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.

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