There’s a Natural Progression: An Interview with Wales Interactive By Elijah Beahm • May 31st, 2023 “We’re telling those nonlinear stories and that’s what we’ve been doing for a long time.”
Noise Complaint Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023 Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.
Mind Palaces Our World and the Others By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2023 Our scientific mindset, our modern rationalism is a handicap when attempting to represent the premodern, where the boundaries that we consider so key for understanding our world have no presence.
Cycle of the Werewolf By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 29th, 2023 It must be a full moon tonight.
This Mortal Coyle Elora the Faun from Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage By Deirdre Coyle • May 26th, 2023 “I’m a faun, you dork!”
Past Presence Virtual Citizen By Dr. Emily Price • May 25th, 2023 A legend, per the OED, is “a story from ancient times about people and events that may or may not be true.” If the residents of Wild World are anything in my memory, they are that: ancient stories.
Funeral Rites Composing the World of Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City By Phoenix Simms • May 24th, 2023 Luka Rejec’s world is suffused with mind-expanding, psychedelic heavy metal and is also inspired by “the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.”
Feature Story Whatever Knows Fear By Orrin Grey • May 23rd, 2023 The uncanny history of Marvel’s muck monster.
Feature Excerpt Painting the Past With a Broad Brush By Saniya Ahmed • May 19th, 2023 Intimacy and ordinary life in art is lacking when attention goes toward religious and imperial powers. Mundane, everyday things are forgettable and not as well-preserved through time as a monument.
