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
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Jul
15
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
Broken worlds, trauma creep, and mapping the empty quarter of Jewish fantasy.
17 min read
Jul
01
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
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
An interview with fantasy writer Alexandra Rowland. How the deep wood gave birth to faeries. Universal monsters.
18 min read
Jun
10
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.
18 min read
Jun
03
A Toast For Armenia
A clinic on the art of the toast. A dispatch from Armenia and the nature of faith and deep time.
20 min read
May
27
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.
12 min read
May
20
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."
16 min read
