I’ve been waiting a while for Strange Horizons to run my review of Vladimir Sorokin’s 2013 novel Telluria, published last year by NYRB Classics with a translation by Max Lawton. I wasnR
I feel a bit silly writing this post this year. A few weeks ago I sat down and made a list of the 2022 books (and a few from late 2021) that I wanted to get to before the new year properly got going.
2022 is in the rearview mirror, but before we leave it behind entirely, I thought I’d do a bit more listmaking. I deliberately titled this post “favorite” rather than “bestR
By now I hope you’ve all had the opportunity to watch Rian Johnson’s sequel to his 2019 blockbuster Knives Out, either in movie theaters at the end of November, or on Netflix in the last f
I didn’t have a great game-playing year in 2022. My patience seemed limited, and a lot of games were begun and then discarded for reasons, I suspect, that had more to do with me than with them.
As everyone knows by now, this year’s battle of the unnecessary IP prequels created solely as cannon-fodder in the streaming wars was won handily by Andor. So handily, in fact, that the other tw
Remember that scene in Titanic, shortly after the ship hits the iceberg, where the officers and owners come to its designer Thomas Andrews, played by Victor Garber, to figure out what they can do abou
We talk a lot about endings in the Golden Age of Television, expecting them to imbue meaning into stories that have relied for their effect on ambiguity. That Gum You Like: Scattered Thoughts on Twin