Past Presence Being So Normal By 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.
Mind Palaces Athletic Feats of Narrative By Maddi Chilton • January 31st, 2023 Experiencing a story as it happens, one where an ending hasn’t been decided – that is what gives sports their fun and their nerve.
Exploits Feature The Peripheral By Sara Clemens • October 31st, 2022 Two eras, some twisty time shenanigans and virtual reality collide in a TV adaptation of William Gibson’s novel.
Rookie of the Year Living the American Stream By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022 America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.
Here's the Thing I Was Wrong About the Muppets By Rob Rich • September 15th, 2022 A while back Rob posited that the ABC’s The Muppets was criminally underrated, but a recent rewatch has changed his tune somewhat.
Past Presence Rehearsal By Emily Price • September 2nd, 2022 The Rehearsal has been called manipulative, sociopathic and dangerous by people on the internet. All of these are obviously exaggerations and misnomers.
Exploits Feature The Rehearsal By Yussef Cole • September 1st, 2022 “In trying to control your life, you wind up creating fiction.”
Eyeing Elsewhere Just Above the Noise By Phillip Russell • August 31st, 2022 The Bear is a show about the traumas that our previous workplaces, managers and family members imprint on us and the struggles we face not only in trying to overcome them, but to break the chain.
Nonhuman Meditations Do Robots Feast on Electric Sheep? By Alyssa Wejebe • July 8th, 2022 Alyssa looks back on robotic energy vampire NOS-4-A2 from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
