September 10, 2015

The Dusty Dead: A Narrative Personality Quiz

September 10, 2015

Welcome to the second installation of An Adventure in Small Games (you can read the first one here), a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series, Eve Golden Woods will focus on indie games and what they have to offer the world of gaming. This ...

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The Thursday Book Beat: Lillith’s Brood to Land on TV Screens

September 10, 2015

New Zealand sets interim ban on YA novel Into the River A rare interim book ban has been carried out in New Zealand over Ted Dawe’s Into the River over complaints that the book is too explicit in its descriptions of sex and drug use. The ban was issued by the Film and Literature Board of ...

Essays

Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell

September 10, 2015

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classic 1971 I couldn’t tell you the year I read The Bell Jar, I couldn’t tell you how old I was, nor the season. But I could tell you what I was wearing the first time I opened the pages and fell deeply in love with Sylvia Plath. I had this two ...

Comics

Racism in 2000AD: It’s Judgement Time

September 10, 2015

Recently, I caught up on a couple of months’ worth of 2000AD. I read Judge Dredd (of course), some strips that were not Judge Dredd, but which I enjoyed anyway, Strontium Dog: The Stix Fix, and the 2015 Summer Special. I was hoping to enjoy these, too.

Essays

In Defense of the Bad Boy

September 10, 2015

Ah, the Bad Boy. He gets a lot of traction in our fictional media. He is alluring on account of his badness, and of course, incredibly good looking. In many cases, he is thrown into a love triangle with a female protagonist where she must decide between The Bad Boy and The Good Guy. We know we ...

September 10, 2015

The Dusty Dead: A Narrative Personality Quiz

The Thursday Book Beat: Lillith’s Brood to Land on TV Screens

Books that Shaped Me: The Bell Jar: Circumventing the Jar, Circling the Bell

Racism in 2000AD: It’s Judgement Time

In Defense of the Bad Boy

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