Mind Palaces Honor Among Adaptations By Maddi Chilton • May 4th, 2023 A faithful adaptation can be satisfying, but an unfaithful adaptation can be invigorating.
Self-Insert Cisswap By Amanda Hudgins • May 2nd, 2023 Known under many tags (including Rule 63, genderbending, gender swap, Always a Different Sex), cisswap is an fandom device most commonly used to make male characters women.
Empire of the East By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 1st, 2023 So wait, demons are nukes? Apparently! At least as far as Fred Saberhagen is concerned.
Self-Insert Thread Fics By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2023 In a lot of ways, Twitter is the home of the thread fic and when it goes, so will they.
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.
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.
Past Presence Recursion By Emily Price • January 26th, 2023 Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.
Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023 Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?
Self-Insert Elevating Trash By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022 If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.
Exploits Feature Les Femmes Grotesques By Noah Springer • November 10th, 2022 Victoria Dalpe’s newest collection of horror shorts offers up visions of the weird and the terrifying that will linger in your head long after you’re done reading.
The Enchanted World By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 24th, 2022 “These are the books that let you fly along with the unlucky spirits condemned to haunt the world of the living.”
Always Autumn Another Meaning of the Words By Autumn Wright • October 12th, 2022 The alphabetical arrangement of Alaska for Looking brings attention to the nonmaterial components of text as a mode, and to the construction of the novel as a form rather than material object.
Always Autumn Realism, Reality and the Real By Autumn Wright • September 13th, 2022 A statement of intent.
Interlinked The Hopeful Disharmony of Into the Doomed World By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2022 Phoenix talks to Javy Gwaltney about Into the Doomed World, his new short-story collection about 30 self-aware NPCs in a world that’s been sentenced to a slow apocalypse by its player.
Always Autumn …the History of Me By Autumn Wright • July 5th, 2022 I was merely a college graduate dropped into a crippled market and a housing crisis, fleeing towards the suburbs of south Florida. It was not the land, but myself that felt alien.
Exploits Feature Almost Ready to Face the Present By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2022 Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence has reminded us that we are more resilient than we often believe ourselves to be.
More Like Gilga-meh! By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2022 This supposed epic, this paradigm-shifting piece of literature, is just another flood myth! Do you know how many flood myths we already have lying around?
Collision Detection Pressing Pause By Ben Sailer • March 2nd, 2022 Ben gets his year-end wrap-ups from various entertainment services and has an unexpected epiphany.
Casting Deep Meteo An Introduction By Levi Rubeck • February 9th, 2022 A word of explanation on the particular alchemy of interests that fascinate and beguile our newest magazine columnist.
Past Presence Unholy Aisles By Emily Price • January 27th, 2022 In a new column, Emily Price sets out to examine media objects’ relationships to time and loss.
Exploits Feature The Radium Age By Noah Springer • January 10th, 2022 Science fiction from the early 20th century is often neglected. The Radium Age series seeks to fix that.
Self-Insert Ultra-Long By Amanda Hudgins • December 31st, 2021 Long fanworks are interesting both for their clear amount of dedication to the craft and how much of an outlier they actually are.
Best of 2021 The Best Books of 2021 By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2021 Pick up one of these books and disappear into a different world, maybe one not populated by new COVID variants.
I read over 100 books in 2021 and here are the 30 best By Amanda Hudgins • December 22nd, 2021 What I’m going to do here is talk about the best books I read in 2021.
Self-Insert Soulmate Goose of Enforcement By Amanda Hudgins • December 1st, 2021 Geese exist to cause trouble. And honk. Or perhaps, help someone find the love of their life.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Lies Beneath The Sand By Phillip Russell • November 30th, 2021 How deep into Dune is Hollywood willing to dig?
Feature Excerpt Roleplaying Freedom: Joel Rosenberg and White Fantasies of Oppression By Noah Berlatsky • November 23rd, 2021 Rosenberg’s depiction of liberation is less about those liberated and more about the moral awakening of the white liberator.
Rookie of the Year The Summers Wind By Matt Marrone • November 8th, 2021 Sometimes nostalgia is a gut-punch from the past. Sometimes it’s a nice breeze. More often than not? It’s both.
100 books in a year By Amanda Hudgins • October 22nd, 2021 There are a few things no one actually wants to hear about: your dreams, your diet, and how many books you’ve read this year.
more genre fiction by people who aren’t cis white dudes By Amanda Hudgins • October 15th, 2021 it seems very odd that we associate science fiction with near identical looking white guys when the first science fiction novel was written by a goth teenage girl who lost her virginity on her mothers’ grave.
Exploits Feature “The Call of Cthulhu” By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2021 There are a million ways to read “The Call of Cthulhu,” but this one sure is the prettiest.
The Seduction of Solitude By Harry Mackin • July 14th, 2021 Harry Mackin discusses the long lost last year
Self-Insert Lemon and Lime By Amanda Hudgins • July 6th, 2021 A journey to the citrus grove scale of fanfic tags.
Stu Wrote a Book By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 5th, 2021 For a while now, Stu’s been writing a book on RPGs. That changed last Monday, cuz he finished it. Hooray!
Exploits Feature Substack Dracula By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021 The horror of Dracula, right in your inbox.
#AsianReadathon 2021 By Amanda Hudgins • May 31st, 2021 This year, I decided to once again participate in #AsianReadathon, an event run by YouTuber withCindy focused on getting participants to read books written by Asian authors.
