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Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives?

By Beatrix Kondo • March 2nd, 2026

The panic serves control, not preservation.

Totally Generic
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lean in for a kiss in a scene from Black Bag.

Best of 2025

By Natasha Ochshorn • January 14th, 2026

The most sustained joy I got this year was mainlining old seasons of Top Chef while I packed and moved and unpacked apartments.

Roads

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 15th, 2025

Santa did what?!

Interlinked
A greyscale drawing of a small boy asleep in a four-poster bed, moonlight shining through the window.

Negative Spatial Awareness

By Phoenix Simms • December 9th, 2025

Environmental storytelling and puzzles are at their best when they’re kept simple and almost subliminal.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Blue Prince shows a view through an open door, which looks into a room with another open door, which looks into a room with another open door that has the silhouette of a man standing just inside the frame.

Big/House

By Dr. Emily Price • December 2nd, 2025

Why is it now that we’re spending so much time in-game wandering through houses?

Run It Back
A stone bridge across a blue river.

1964

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 26th, 2025

Even though Hemingway doesn’t quite know what to do with them, each woman present in this book (whether in the text or its making) is undeniably influential on him and his work.

Mind Palaces
A lonely, derelict house sits solemnly in a field of long grass.

All Houses Are Haunted (By Heterosexuality)

By Maddi Chilton • October 30th, 2025

In both Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests and Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep, the lesbian main character keeps a neat, controlled house in lieu of a more traditional home life with a husband.

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