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Totally Generic
Saruman evilly ponders his orb in this still from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.

No One Has Actually Read Lord of the Rings

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 16th, 2025

It is really easy to lie about having read a book that many people are familiar with but many fewer accurately remember.

Mind Palaces
A cropped photo of the author's bookshelves, spines neatly aligned.

Shelf Life

By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2025

I think if I died tomorrow, you’d get a good idea of who I was by looking at my books.

Photographs of all the characters for In the Name of the People the TV show with the title in Mandarin at the bottom, everyone looks stern but also a little cheey with some smiles

Corrupted Hero, Corrupted Dream

By Zonghang Zhou • February 24th, 2025

Still, viewers choose to find good in the evil.

Here Be Monsters

The Fable of Myhouse.wad, or: Why We Should All Be Scared of ChatGPT

By Emma Kostopolus • February 5th, 2025

Every time someone uses text or art generated by an LLM, they have allowed the AI to make decisions about the final composition.

Past Presence
Key art from Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows the player character standing in front of a composite image of their companions, a huge dragon spreading its wings behind them all.

Mid

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2025

We hurl “mid” at all kinds of popular culture and, if we’re mean, into the comments of streamers or on people’s outfit reels. What do we mean when we say it?

A pile of various old media formats including a CD, cassette tape, game boy cartridge, 3.5" floppy disks, and more

Physical Media and Collective Nostalgia

By Paige Eldridge • January 30th, 2025

But even though discs can be seen as outdated, they’re not out of style yet.

Run It Back
A black-and-white photo of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba wearing a suit in what appears to be a government building, arms raised as if in surrender.

2024

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2025

The question of art’s utility becomes especially mired in complexity when we think about how much of Black/Queer art is eulogy.

A drawing of Kiri from The Tower audio drama, drawn entirely in purple shades a hooded woman looks up with a hopeful smile on her face

Into the Unknown: An Audio Drama Journey Through the Self and The Tower

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • December 20th, 2024

You and I might listen to the same show, but we’ll imagine things a little differently.

Fabled Lands

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 9th, 2024

Adventure gamebook? How about an adventure gameworld?

Noise Complaint
Detail from the cover art for Amped shows the silhouette of a snowboarder raising his board above his head in triumph, dark against a bright blue sky.

How The Get Up Kids and an Xbox Demo Disc Changed My Life

By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2024

One afternoon when I had nothing else to do, I popped in a sampler of the snowboarding game Amped, and discovered a couple tracks from The Get Up Kids.

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