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A screenshot from Netflix's trailer for Diana with the title character in white facing the lights in blue shadow

Upstage History: Musicals, History & Artifice

By Alex J. Tunney • March 25th, 2026

Why not lean into the artifice of the musical medium?

A screenshot of Alien Covenant where Blond David in a blue little uniform is looking down disdainfully at us, the viewer

Comfort of Cold Starlight

By Wyeth Leslie • March 4th, 2026

The reduction of human life to extract value for others has always been the text of this hostile universe.

A cropped image of the box for Molly House, with elaborate white script of the title over a red box with line drawings of dozens of characters

To Have Fun in Spite of The Tragedy of It All: The Pertinence of Molly House

By Luis Aguasvivas • March 25th, 2025

Within this box a metaphor is contained, one of festive joy experienced by a collective in conservative Georgian England.

A screenshot from Nucleares with an outdoor shot, two cooling towers dark and grey against a cloudy sunset surrounded by dark green trees and a lonely road

The Bomb and You

By Jackson Cross • March 4th, 2025

Each time I started the game, I would turn on the equipment and watch helplessly as things started to go wrong.

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Blasting the Canon

By Andrew Goddard • October 7th, 2021

What classical music can teach us about constructing a videogame canon

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The Movement Marches On

By Harry Rabinowitz • August 6th, 2020

Now and then, the privileged and the powerful imply that the “right way” to protest is not to protest at all. John Lewis stands against that.

Historian of the Future: An Interview with Andrew Groen

By Megan Condis • May 9th, 2016

Megan had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Groen, author of Empires of EVE

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