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.
Everything's Riverdale
A fox in the wood spurs thoughts on forests and the worth of trees. Plus: a deep dive into the psychosexual undercurrents of Archie Comics.
A Toast For Armenia
A clinic on the art of the toast. A dispatch from Armenia and the nature of faith and deep time.
The Empire is a Predatory Forest
Trees, like empires, wear against one another. Empires, like trees, are never quite so separate from one another as they like to claim.
Do Birds Matter? (Monsters are Creatures of Borders)
"A future that would not be monstrous would not be a future; it would already be a predictable, calculable, and programmable tomorrow."
This is Not A Dinosaur
As generally used, “dinosaur,” like “tree,” or “sabre-toothed cat,” isn’t reflective of a specific biological lineage so much as a way of life.
