Books Forget Edgar Allen Poe, What About Wilkie Collins? A Tribute to the Forgotten Father of the Detective Novel With 27 novels, more than 50 short stories and 15 plays, it’s time that Collins started to get the credit he deserved. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Ritual & Responsibility: Subversion in The Wasp Factory and We Have Always Lived in the Castle There is nothing so commanding, right, or natural in the powers that be that a child cannot toss them aside. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books All That is Solid Melts Into Air: A Review of Stories are Weapons Several significant flaws prevent this book from being a useful treatise on the American culture wars. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods Is modern science fiction's indulging in escapism rationalizing our own complicities? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel “The idea gradually dawned on me that all these people – men or women – were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.” By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Rabbits with Eyeliner: Gender and Prosocial Education in LEGO Sets Why is LEGO telling us to pick up garbage? And who is LEGO telling to pick up garbage? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 The Writing Revolution Will Come When We Realize Our Collective Value Together, we can forge ahead and make something different. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Building Our Own Palace of Dreams: The 1981 Novel that Envisioned the Modern Surveillance State A novel that stands above 1984 and Brave New World in prescience. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Outta the Pool: Remembering the Adult Swim Live Streams All you need to make art is a camera, a mic, and an idea. Maybe a cool fish tank too. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
2000s Nostalgia Ends Here: The 2000s Sucked, Actually A decade of recession, war, and fearmongering. But at least we had clear plastic electronics... By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
