By Christopher Sloce What Happened to the Game that I Love? Basketball After the Vibe Shift “Nothing happened, you just never loved basketball.” By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Matthew Claxton Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? The old mode of science fiction is disappearing. What's replacing it? By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Timothy Lee Anime Abridged Series on YouTube: A Retrospective and Love Letter The rise and fall of one of YouTube's most iconic genres By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Simon McNeil Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction Saving the world is more complex than solar panels and good vibes. By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Ernie Smith Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse Super Mario Bros. lost something when it gained a dimension. By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Alexander Taurozzi Ultimatum: A Journey Into an America-Fearing Canadian Mind A book from 53 years ago posited a now too-relevant question: what if the US went rogue? By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Jake Pitre Pulse, Demonlover, and Meanings of the Internet Two films clairvoyant in their skepticism of the internet. By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Nina Luther Secretary and the Erotic Nature of the Typewriter "Two lonely people have come together through a love and desire that’s unique thanks, in part, to the typewriter." By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Adam Ansley Game Pass in 1994: The Too-Soon Brilliance of the Sega Channel A brief history of digital games distribution, and why Sega's revolutionary attempt caused no revolution By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Beckett Flynn Jackass and the Tragedy of Cinema's Slop Era A franchise that died and rotted into merchandise of itself. By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Alex Conroy There is No Proto-Dragon: The Illusion of Fictional Taxonomy Ask not what a dragon does, but what a dragon is By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Justin Avery Smith Between the Lions, "Elsagate," and the Fall of Quality Children's Programming Young imaginations should be expanded, not exploited. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Timothy Lee Love & Pop: The Evangelion Creator’s Live-Action Time Capsule Masterpiece That’s Even More Relevant Today There are no shortcuts to developing real human connections. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Tiernan Blanchard Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Danny Cohen White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Laura Berlinsky-Schine Homer's Odyssey: The First Literary Thriller Literary thrillers are about the journey, not the destination. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Matt Wolfbridge On Civilizational Loss, Mourning, and Life’s Remaining Beauty: An Interview with Luke O’Neil Everything is as bad as O’Neil says it is. But do we deserve it? His latest fiction collection grasps for an answer. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Sam Reader Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By J.D. Harlock The Super Mario Bros. Films and Our Bizarre Obsession with Faithfulness to the Source Material Does faithfulness to the source material always lead to a superior adaptation? By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Jonathan Thornton A Celebration of the Abject, the Queer, and the Arcane: The Work of Writer-Musician Jenny Hval Hval’s work, both in written and musical form, shows an artist willing to explore the limits of genres. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By William Schwartz Flash Gordon and the Importance of Imagination Flash Gordon is not concerned with lore or brand identification. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Aug 2025
By Christopher Luis-Jorge Pumping Gold: How a Decade of Bodybuilding and Terrorism Started a Wave of Cheap Fantasy Movies Politics, pulp fiction, and pumping iron. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
2000s Craving Pulverized Flesh: The Anti-Fascist Philosophy of Zombie Strippers We are surrounded on all sides by pole-dancing ghouls. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
Books Italo Calvino and the Secret of "Cozy" Fiction No lattes needed. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
By RS Benedict Lost Highway, David Lynch, and the End of History We're all on a ride going nowhere down a lost highway. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
By Anna C. Webster Call to Power: How a Forgotten Civilization Spinoff Game Accurately Predicted the Future One forgotten title from 1999 that would accurately depict the arc of human civilization throughout the 21st century. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
Animation The Legend of Mother Sarah: Light in the Post-Apocalyptic Darkness The Legend of Mother Sarah is just as bold in its prognosis of our modern woes as Akira. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
By Costa Koutsoutis Martin Scorsese's Casino and America's Rotten Promises Money, murder, and Manifest Destiny. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
By Asa Williams Professional Wrestling, a Multi-Era Musical Analysis A musical tour through wrestling history. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
Issue 5 The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software A new era of writing as a mechanical act. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
internet culture I Love Myself for No Longer Caring About BuzzFeed Revisiting a time capsule of 2010s online media–and Millennial creative–culture By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Books On Disillusionment, the End of Empire, and 9/11 Memes (Oh Yeah, and His New Novel): An Interview with Ron Currie Jr. A lazier writer would market this as “The Golden Girls meets Breaking Bad.” By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Fiction Discussion Searching for the Feminine Grotesque The feminine grotesque gives a rare voice to women expressing ideas that go against social norms. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Gaming Dungeons, Dragons, and Game Design: Why 4E Rules the D&D Roost I doubt Dungeons and Dragons will ever be so honest again. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
internet culture Rumble in the Belly of the Brain-Rotted Beast: Tyson vs. Paul Live at the Terror Dome America is back, baby, Jake Paul says. You know what America he’s talking about. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
internet culture No, You Don't Need a Social Media Presence as a Writer The ubiquitous advice is wrong. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Fiction Discussion Interrogating Power and Narrative in the Cities of the Weft Trilogy An admonishment to read closely and not to fix upon plot becomes an encouragement to read as you will. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Fiction Discussion Leg Drops are Literature: Professional Wrestling Angles as Literary Narratives Wrestling is as deep as literature, steroids and steel cages notwithstanding By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
internet culture Echo chamber, Town Square, or Den of Iniquity: What Is Bluesky, Really? Bluesky has arrived. But the party online is long since over. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman, and the Horror of False Freedom The real tragedy is believing yourself free when freedom is impossible. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Fiction Discussion Sworn Brothers: The Connection Between Theater and Gaming Games have been adapted to film, but are they meant for theater? By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Lev Grossman's Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Gaming Architect Mario: Video Game Cities and Lost American Urbanism Video games are the only place most Americans encounter good urban design. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness On dismal failure and death drives. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Claire Keegan and the Value of Waiting a Long Time for Something Short What we lose when we value production over precision. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Forget Edgar Allen Poe, What About Wilkie Collins? A Tribute to the Forgotten Father of the Detective Novel With 27 novels, more than 50 short stories and 15 plays, it’s time that Collins started to get the credit he deserved. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Ritual & Responsibility: Subversion in The Wasp Factory and We Have Always Lived in the Castle There is nothing so commanding, right, or natural in the powers that be that a child cannot toss them aside. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Fiction Discussion Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods Is modern science fiction's indulging in escapism rationalizing our own complicities? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel “The idea gradually dawned on me that all these people – men or women – were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.” By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Rabbits with Eyeliner: Gender and Prosocial Education in LEGO Sets Why is LEGO telling us to pick up garbage? And who is LEGO telling to pick up garbage? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 The Writing Revolution Will Come When We Realize Our Collective Value Together, we can forge ahead and make something different. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Building Our Own Palace of Dreams: The 1981 Novel that Envisioned the Modern Surveillance State A novel that stands above 1984 and Brave New World in prescience. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Issue 3 Outta the Pool: Remembering the Adult Swim Live Streams All you need to make art is a camera, a mic, and an idea. Maybe a cool fish tank too. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Representation and Refraction: Gender and The Triple Goddess in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman For trans women of a certain generation, The Sandman left a lingering uneasiness. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Gaming Invisible Cities 2: Neopets as a Lived Space Neopets and French sociology, together at last. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Gaming Playing Fate: Choice and Doom in Gothic Gameplay Why play gothic games where we choose doom, inevitability, and inescapable cycles of despair? By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Lore Done Right: Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds Lore becomes more powerful when there's less of it. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fantasy Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and ChatGPT: How Snobbery Can Save Us From the Literary Robot Apocalypse Readers, critics, and editors have to demand better. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fiction Discussion Bringing Sherlock Holmes to the 21st Century (or The Adventure of Japan Having All the Fun) The best Sherlock Holmes stories of the last two decades have come from Japan. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Interpreting the Abyss: An Ode to Christopher Manson's MAZE The labyrinth inside an 80s puzzle book will never be solved, never die, and never let go of its victims. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Issue 1 The Barbie Typewriter: Cracking Codes in Trademarked Pink A little typewriter with a big secret. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
film No Country for Cringe Men: Remembering the Channel Awesome Anniversary Trilogy Remembering the web's worst movies so you don't have to. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fiction Discussion Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun The driving force behind nihilistic visions of the future. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Issue 1 Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing We got to one of the futures Science Fiction proposed, and it sucked. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fantasy Concerning Habits: Purpose In Fiction and How to Defy It I feel a pang when I reach the end of The Lord of the Rings because it means I must wake. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fantasy Finding Space for the "Literary" in Fantasy: A Reflection on A Woman of the Sword A trend-defying novel about the "wrong" character told the "wrong" way. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
90s How Aeon Flux Deconstructed the Mystery Box TV Show (Before It Existed) The show is notable for more than its dystopian backdrops and ugly-sexy character designs. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
internet culture Doug Walker Was Right: How To Boldly Flee Predicted the Modern Internet Everyone is the worst person in the room and rewarded for it constantly. Sound familiar? By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
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By Karlo Yeager Rodríguez Blanquitos Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. By Typebar_Admin / 5 Dec 2025
Interstitials The Weakness of the Flesh and the Horror of Losing It In cyberpunk, what does it mean to have a body? By Typebar_Admin / 26 Jan 2026
By Ernie Smith Don’t Call It A Substack. Newsletters Have Been Here For Years Why is everyone suddenly calling their newsletter a "Substack"? By Typebar_Admin / 14 Jul 2025