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Past Presence
The main characters of the TV show Normal People cuddle in an autumnal field.

Being So Normal

By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2023

Sally Rooney books are basically Victorian novels in millennial form, Middlemarch if Dorothea and Lydgate had cell phones and email.

Past Presence
A top-down map from the videogame Dwarf Fortress showing the labyrinthine halls of a massive underground cavern.

Recursion

By Dr. Emily Price • January 26th, 2023

Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.

Screenshot from Pentiment, where a person in scholarly robes is standing by a destroyed building talking to a young villager, the scholar is saying "Good, good. Keep the faith."

Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder

By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023

Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?

Self-Insert
The full cover art from the dust jacket of the American release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione being carried to safety from a dungeon by Fawkes the phoenix.

Elevating Trash

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022

If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.

Exploits Feature
Detail from the cover of Victoria Dalpe’s Les Femmes Grotesques featuring a woman's face reproduced in triplicate, the abstract colors and shadows surrounding her giving the impression of flames.

Les Femmes Grotesques

By Noah Springer • November 10th, 2022

Victoria Dalpe’s newest collection of horror shorts offers up visions of the weird and the terrifying that will linger in your head long after you’re done reading.

The Enchanted World

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 24th, 2022

“These are the books that let you fly along with the unlucky spirits condemned to haunt the world of the living.”

Always Autumn
Wispy grey smoke swirling across a field of black.

Another Meaning of the Words

By Autumn Wright • October 12th, 2022

The alphabetical arrangement of Alaska for Looking brings attention to the nonmaterial components of text as a mode, and to the construction of the novel as a form rather than material object.

Always Autumn
The title character of the manga Chainsaw Man, a man in shirt and tie with sharp teeth and a chainsaw for a head.

Realism, Reality and the Real

By Autumn Wright • September 13th, 2022

A statement of intent.

Interlinked
In a detail from the cover art of Javy Gwaltney’s Into the Doomed World, a lone tombstone sits in a large grassy field lit by sunset, mountains and trees rising behind it.

The Hopeful Disharmony of Into the Doomed World

By Phoenix Simms • September 8th, 2022

Phoenix talks to Javy Gwaltney about Into the Doomed World, his new short-story collection about 30 self-aware NPCs in a world that’s been sentenced to a slow apocalypse by its player.

Always Autumn
The mane of a white horse is seen from behind. Superimposed on the whole image, a large dark crack splits the a jagged vertical line.

…the History of Me

By Autumn Wright • July 5th, 2022

I was merely a college graduate dropped into a crippled market and a housing crisis, fleeing towards the suburbs of south Florida. It was not the land, but myself that felt alien.

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