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The Guest
A still from Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water shows the main character underwater with a humanoid yet amphibious creature, the two of them totally about to make out.

Monsterfucking

By Amanda Hudgins • July 5th, 2024

Monsterfucking is about showing a mirror to the monstrosity within – both in terms of society and in terms of the relationships between the parties involved.

A screenshot from Dying Light in a wooded area facing a sunset with a teammate holding an automatic rifle and another in a cowboy hat with a sword with extra swords bolted on

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

By Zonghang Zhou • July 3rd, 2024

Though the fear of impending death is rendered moot by respawn mechanics, you know it will eventually run out. Still, you flatly refuse to go gentle into that good night.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Katamari Damacy shows a gigantic ball of detritus in a field of green, a rainbow stretching across the blue sky. A cow and her calf graze nearby, incuriously.

Killing the Dragon

By Dr. Emily Price • July 3rd, 2024

Both Dungeon Meshi and the Katamari franchise ask you to zoom in and look closely, keep your eyes peeled for small details, and never forget them even when they’re a speck on the surface of a massive star.

Exploits Feature

Three New Novels That Change How You Think about Reality

By Kathleen Levitt • July 1st, 2024

The older I get, the more I gravitate towards fiction that messes with the real.

Always Autumn
Destruction from The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole, 1836.

The Worst Case Scenario

By Autumn Wright • June 11th, 2024

It’s worth asking whether people in the past thought they lived at the end times. It’s worth more to realize that despite the recurring sentiment, we do.

Mind Palaces
A triplet of the covers for the books What I'd Rather Not Think About, Lost on Me, and Undiscovered.

Booking It (Vol. 1)

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2024

Maddi sets out to read the International Booker Prize longlist, 13 books from around the world that were translated into English within the last year.

Run It Back
A black-and-white close-up photograph of author Truman Capote as a young man.

1966

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 28th, 2024

Much like Isherwood, Capote’s writing relies on a gay fly-on-the-wall positioning.

Interlinked
The overworld map for World 1 of Super Mario World, featuring many paths for Mario to travel.

A 16-Bit Memorial Garden

By Phoenix Simms • April 3rd, 2024

If All the World and Love were Young is not only a stunning elegy for Stephen Sexton’s mother, but an ekphrastic piece about the nature of play and memory.

Mind Palaces
The cracked spine of The Modern Library paperback edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Lost in Translation

By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2024

I’m reading War and Peace for the first time, and probably the only time, and I’d like to do it right.

Jack of Shadows

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 4th, 2024

Revenge is a dish best served over and over and over again.

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