Oct
21
Decline and Fall: The Long (Star) War
An account of the Long Star War, how it began and how everybody, in the end, lost.
19 min read
Saul Elbein
Oct
07
The Art of the Mashup
Ten song mashups, the joys of fusion, and the key to a perfect curry
20 min read
Sep
23
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.
15 min read
Sep
09
Decline and Fall: The Military Makes The State
Dispatches from the Armenian drone war, and an introduction to Decline and Fall.
19 min read
Sep
02
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
Charting a course toward Heat Death 2.0.
7 min read
Aug
19
Welcome to the Lizard Factory
How (and why) to breed Texas' favorite lizard.
15 min read
Jul
29
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
The tragedy of Dr. Death. Black Widow's cold war baggage. And what are Marvel's TV shows about, anyway?
19 min read
Jul
08
Seven Theses on Gehenna
Broken worlds, trauma creep, and mapping the empty quarter of Jewish fantasy.
17 min read
