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Session Report is a series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on specific tabletop games. This month’s game is: Paperback by Tim…

Like my namesake, I have a weakness for excess. Give me audacious; give me far-reaching. Even if it doesn’t quite hit the mark, I’ll probably be impressed. Hence my fondness…

In February 2017, I heard an advertisement for an upcoming podcast by the makers of Serial, the show that introduced me to the podcast form. For those that haven’t heard…

  Remember when Serial came out and everyone was like, “Oh my God, have you heard of podcasts? They’re amazing!” True, this may not have been the case for you—by…

I’d told myself that it would be different, moving to New York. For so long, its idealized specter was my saving grace – in theory, of course – as I…

What My Hair Says About You by Laura Theobald. Metatron, 2016. 96 pages.   am i supposed to talk about the drain your feet or something things i know   Like…

There hasn’t been a time I was less at home in my own body than when I was a teenager. Breasts sprouted, full of possibility that would never be realized.…

The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, which started airing on February 3rd, was eagerly anticipated and met with favorable reviews. I binged the whole thing in two days. It was…

At their best, monsters are metaphors for ideas, or cultural phenomena, in real life that scare us, from the most basic ‘Other’/foreigner to, say, sex/desire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Zombies…

How does the land we stand on define us? Does a place’s history and inheritance have bearing on its presence? Are some patterns that play out through time beyond our…

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle “I long for the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts, but I’ve rarely, if…

I loved The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. The Wall of Storms (WoS) is not just a brilliant follow up, but one of the greatest novels I’ve read. There…

Imagine you have a child who is running, playing, talking, and sleeping normally until he’s cut down in his tracks. His motor skills suddenly deteriorate. He no longer sleeps nights.…

Codenames Czech Games Edition, 2015 Amazon It’s no surprise that given our previous coverage of Vlaada Chvatil’s games that we love his designs—and it’s rightfully so. Vlaada has a knack…