Books Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman, and the Horror of False Freedom The real tragedy is believing yourself free when freedom is impossible. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Fiction Discussion Sworn Brothers: The Connection Between Theater and Gaming Games have been adapted to film, but are they meant for theater? By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Lev Grossman's Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness On dismal failure and death drives. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Claire Keegan and the Value of Waiting a Long Time for Something Short What we lose when we value production over precision. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
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
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
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
