90s Girl, Interrupted 25 Years Later: An Unheralded Film with a Lasting Cultural Impact A prescient, if largely undiscussed, film about American attitudes towards mental health. By Typebar_Admin / 20 Dec 2024
internet culture Echo chamber, Town Square, or Den of Iniquity: What Is Bluesky, Really? Bluesky has arrived. But the party online is long since over. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
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
Gaming Architect Mario: Video Game Cities and Lost American Urbanism Video games are the only place most Americans encounter good urban design. 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