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Past Presence
The main characters of the TV show Normal People cuddle in an autumnal field.

Being So Normal

By Dr. 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
A group photo of the Wu-Tang Clan standing in the desert, backlit by a dusky sunset.

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
A colorful drawing of several dinosaurs in pulpy sci-fi space uniforms engaging in battle with a robot horde.

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
A screenshot from Dirty Bomb shows a helicopter hovering low above a brick and iron suspension bridge.

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.

Feature Excerpt
Pieces of construction plans or blueprints are scattered willy-nilly, connected to each other with several orange arrows, as if someone was trying to create some kind of map.

A Ride Through the Objective Field of Passion

By Braden Timss • February 21st, 2023

Disneyland is a place where one can fall backward from the future to the frontier days of the American westward expansion without the slightest struggle, physical or cognitive.

Letter from the Editor
A series of fleshy, toothy monstrosities on a log ride.

Unwinnable Monthly – February 2023

By David Shimomura • February 17th, 2023

Statistically, no one can spell February correctly on the first try.

Here's the Thing
A tablet, keyboard, and gaming mouse are laid out among several of offerings in Microsoft's Game Pass library.

Grappling With Game Pass

By Rob Rich • February 14th, 2023

A brief sojourn with Xbox Game Pass helps Rob come around on the concept of online game streaming.

This Mortal Coyle

Get Her What She Really Wants for Valentine’s Day and Avoid the Wrath of the Ancient Ones

By Deirdre Coyle • February 13th, 2023

A holiday gift guide that just might save your skin.

Forms in Light
A screenshot from the videogame Dishonored shows a cobblestoned street winding its way through city buildings lit by dusky sun filtered through a smog-filled sky.

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

By Justin Reeve • February 10th, 2023

Dishonored is a game which harkens back to a time when protection for working people was practically nonexistent, ruthless exploitation being the rule.

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?

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