I know, I know, Succession. And look, I do not watch Succession, so I suppose I can't definitively say that The Bear is the better show. But I've also been following the Golden Age of the TV antihero going all the way back to The...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
I watched Wes Anderson's latest, Asteroid City, on Wednesday, and came away thinking that it was delightful but slight. The further I get from the movie, however, the more it.
I mentioned Tochi Onyebuchi's Goliath in my Hugo ballot post, and reviewed it on my blog. But the further I get away from it, the more convinced I become that.
Today is LGM fund drive day! I am choosing to celebrate by, um, recommending stuff on other websites? No, wait, this actually makes sense: if you donate to LGM, they pay me, and then I can buy things which I will then write about on...
Last year I posted here about Art Spiegelman's Maus, in the context of its being banned by American school boards (a trend that has only continued and worsened since). I.
By popular demand (i.e., one or two people in the comments) I am breaking up my yearly games roundup into periodic updates over the course of the year. No idea.
It's a funny thing, but despite being 100% a creature of the web 2.0 era, I have never gotten into podcasting. I didn't even listen to a lot of podcasts before the pandemic. So last month, I had the rather funny experience of making my...
In one week, the nominating period for the 2023 Hugo awards will end. The Hugos are one of the top science fiction and fantasy awards in the English-speaking world, and.
Seven weeks ago I quite proudly announced that I had watched half of the films nominated for best picture before the nominations were revealed, which was probably a record for.
Cover for Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin, English translation by Max Lawton, NYRB Classics 2022 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...
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.
I've seen five of the ten movies nominated for best picture this year, which is a pretty high ratio for me. Overall I'd say it's an eclectic list but hardly.