Asher Elbein

Asher Elbein

Sep
02
Your Skeleton is Nonbinary, Too

Your Skeleton is Nonbinary, Too

A team of archeologists has called a 13th century body nonbinary. The truth may be considerably more complicated.
15 min read
Aug
26
Further Words on Heat Death

Further Words on Heat Death

Charting a course toward Heat Death 2.0.
7 min read
Aug
19
Welcome to the Lizard Factory

Welcome to the Lizard Factory

How (and why) to breed Texas' favorite lizard.
15 min read
Jul
29
Some Things We Must Let Die

Some Things We Must Let Die

Ecological processes of culture, the tension between utopia and dystopia, and the corpus of writer Kim Stanley Robinson.
17 min read
Jul
22
Widow Stories

Widow Stories

The tragedy of Dr. Death. Black Widow's cold war baggage. And what are Marvel's TV shows about, anyway?
19 min read
Jul
15
The Nation's Parks Are Rotting

The Nation's Parks Are Rotting

"I don't know why we ever got into this work."
15 min read
Jul
08
Seven Theses on Gehenna

Seven Theses on Gehenna

Broken worlds, trauma creep, and mapping the empty quarter of Jewish fantasy.
17 min read
Jul
01
A Purposeful Grimace & A Terrible Sound

A Purposeful Grimace & A Terrible Sound

Blockbuster East Asian franchises forecast a world on a one-way train to chaotic change.
14 min read
Jun
24
We're All Creatures of Collapse

We're All Creatures of Collapse

It hung over them as it hangs over us: as a memory, as a premonition.
18 min read
Jun
17
On The Ecology of Myth

On The Ecology of Myth

An interview with fantasy writer Alexandra Rowland. How the deep wood gave birth to faeries. Universal monsters.
18 min read