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Noah's Beat Box
Close up on an old-school boom box – silver finish, round speaker screens, tape deck in the center.

Hip Hop at Fifty

By Noah Springer • January 9th, 2024

After stepping back from the contemporary, Noah reflects a bit more on the different eras of hip hop and what they mean to him.

Mind Palaces

Shelf Fodder

By Maddi Chilton • December 29th, 2023

The sacralization of literature – the item, not the concept – becomes annoying at best when faced with just how much of our literary ephemera is garbage.

A closeup shot of Hannah, holding her hand up to the camera and with a slight look of concern or fear

A Plague of Denial: The Haunting of One’s Mind

By Brea Shanice • October 10th, 2023

How would this version of A Turn of the Screw live up to all the others? I can say without a doubt that I have found a new favorite adaptation.

A crop of the cover and title text for The Cloven, with a lot of vegetation and action going on with some fuzzy goat legs in the mix all behind the text of the title

The Cloven Is A Conspiracy Thriller For Everyone Just Wanting To Exist

By Elijah Beahm • September 19th, 2023

This is a cohesive creative vision the likes of which most could only dream of.

Video Game of the Year

By Noah Springer • September 15th, 2023

“…an inviting look into the history of the genre since Pong popped into people’s homes all the way back in 1977.”

Noah's Beat Box
Art from the children's book This is Not My Hat, featuring a huge fish peering at a tiny one wearing the smallest, most adorable bowler on its head.

An Adult Critique of Books for Children

By Noah Springer • September 13th, 2023

You know what doesn’t get enough hate in Noah’s opinion? Children’s books.

Mind Palaces
A screenshot from Pathologic shows buildings with strange conical architecture reaching up into hazy grey skies.

Architectural Intent

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2023

For a book that is nominally about the hubristic imaginings of a genius architect, Rose/House seems to have no actual interest in architecture.

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