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Terry Pratchett’s Antidote to Copaganda

By Hannah Copestake • January 21st, 2021

Why aren’t the police on the side of ordinary people?

Best of 2020
Dark wooden bookshelves filled with leather-bound volumes.

The Best Books of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2020

Books will continue to inspire, instruct, entertain, baffle and illuminate our lives and the interestingly cursed times that we find ourselves embroiled in.

Noteworthy Hip Hop

Rediscovering 24-Carat Black

By Noah Springer • December 22nd, 2020

Noah talks to Zach Schonfeld about his new book on the overlooked legacy of funk and soul band 24-Carat Black.

Casting Deep Meteo
A sepia toned train.

Red Dead Redemption Precedes the Territory

By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2020

The many flavors of The West (of the United States, specifically) are boiled down to a single salty broth for cinematic consumption.

cover art for When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2020

A sequel to Nghi Vo’s also fantastic Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain is a story about oral history and mythmaking.

Exploits

2010 – 2019

By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020

Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.

The cover for Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

2800 words on Ready Player Two

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2020

The weirdest thing about Ready Player Two is that it decides to confront the criticisms of Ready Player One head on in the least effective way you could imagine.

a mans face made of leaves and branches. This is a detail shot of the cover art from Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood.

genre fiction by people who aren’t cis white dudes

By Amanda Hudgins • November 25th, 2020

Every few years there’s a push for people to read more books by writers who are not white or writers who are not male or writers who are not cis-gendered or Western.

A wolfs eyes looking straight to camera.

Strong Openers

By Amanda Hudgins • November 17th, 2020

A good opening line is like the sound of opening a can of soda on a hot day, it’s a promise of things to come.

Lankhmar

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 21st, 2020

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we walk the shadowy streets of Lankhmar: City of Adventure, one of the greatest RPG city sourcebooks.

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