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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.

Run It Back
Detail from an early cover of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch shows the back-lit silhouette of a man leaning against the railing of a balcony.

1975

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 3rd, 2025

Even those who cling to thrones must die eventually.

Feature Story
In a snowy scene, a boy and his father walk alongside train tracks as a train approaches. The boy carries an electric typewriter.

Making Prince of Persia: A Family’s World War II Survival Memoir

By Charles H. Huang • August 27th, 2025

Replay is a genre defying graphic memoir that acts not just as a celebration of game development, but as a warning.

Totally Generic
Detail from a drawing of an opulent hotel framed by palm fronds, fruit, and other lush vegetation.

The Listeners Draws a Line at Naziism

By Natasha Ochshorn • August 13th, 2025

You cannot accommodate Nazis without tainting any good you try to accomplish.

Safe Travels

By Alexander B. Joy • July 25th, 2025

River King prefers allusive décor that tells stories via implication, and its save points are no exception.

A still from The Beaches of Agnes, a film by Agnes Varda, with a comic drawing of the director sitting on a very tall director chair in a red jumper staring at the water and a seagull

Does Taste Matter?

By Farouk Kannout • July 17th, 2025

Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

A rendering of Geller's book floating over a red background, the cover of the book looks like a lush overgrowth on top of a long abandoned lattice

A Record for Our Times: Jacob Geller has a Book

By Luis Aguasvivas • July 9th, 2025

Even if the book is partly inaccessible as a form to the non-Geller fan, How a Game Lives is infused with depth and beauty beyond its gorgeous presentation.

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