World's Finest, Forever and Ever
The real difference between Superman and Batman lies not in backstory or costume, but in how they're allowed to change.
Decline and Fall: The Military Makes The State
Dispatches from the Armenian drone war, and an introduction to Decline and Fall.
Your Skeleton is Nonbinary, Too
A team of archeologists has called a 13th century body nonbinary. The truth may be considerably more complicated.
Further Words on Heat Death
Charting a course toward Heat Death 2.0.
Welcome to the Lizard Factory
How (and why) to breed Texas' favorite lizard.
Some Things We Must Let Die
Ecological processes of culture, the tension between utopia and dystopia, and the corpus of writer Kim Stanley Robinson.
Widow Stories
The tragedy of Dr. Death. Black Widow's cold war baggage. And what are Marvel's TV shows about, anyway?
Seven Theses on Gehenna
Broken worlds, trauma creep, and mapping the empty quarter of Jewish fantasy.
A Purposeful Grimace & A Terrible Sound
Blockbuster East Asian franchises forecast a world on a one-way train to chaotic change.
On The Ecology of Myth
An interview with fantasy writer Alexandra Rowland. How the deep wood gave birth to faeries. Universal monsters.
