Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—the CW musical dramedy about coming to terms with your mental health problems—has brought us many classic ditties, but perhaps none as LGM-friendly as this song about why you shouldn't be a lawyer. The same episode also contains a melancholy lament sung by...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
So, here's something you probably don't know about me: I love stories about solar system space exploration. I love fictionalizations of the mid-century space race like Apollo 13 and the.
Malka Older is an academic, a humanitarian worker, and a science fiction writer. We'll be talking about her work in the.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political worlds. This time, our subject is Revenant Gun, the concluding volume in Yoon Ha Lee's space opera trilogy Machineries of Empire, published earlier this summer....
Hey, remember Michael Ian Black, the comedian whose response to Louis CK's attempt to resurrect his career a mere ten months after being exposed as a gross sexual predator was.
There's a problem I occasionally encounter as a reviewer that I call the "it's really good" problem. It's when you want to recommend something that doesn't have an obvious hook.
I finally managed to see BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee's latest film about the real police detective who, in the 70s, infiltrated the KKK. It's basically as good as all the positive reviews and plaudits make it sound, with fun, dynamic central performances by John David Washington...
Shana Tova, LGM! May the year and its curses end; may the year and its blessings begin! Let's trumpet in 5779 with another installment of A Political History of the.
I refuse to do Louis CK the courtesy of putting a picture of him here. Instead, these industrious, helpful worms are here as an illustration of.
As I mentioned in my last post, after a few days in London, my vacation has continued with my spending a week in a house in Shropshire with a large group of friends. Activities have included some moderate exploring, adventurous cooking projects (I made this;...
Some of you may be wondering where the next Political History of the Future entry is. The answer is that there's going to be a delay this month, first because.
In this installment of A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its political and economic futures, we discuss indie developer Fullbright's most recent game,.