One of the roots of the word “right” comes from the French “droite,” which is derived from “du rois.” In this way a right was neither inalienable nor innately granted…
I used to be fixated on the idea of arranged marriages when I was in high school. Relying on other people’s judgment to get around the difficulties of discovering what…
Torture porn has lately formalized itself into a full-fledged, and mostly unwelcome, new genre in the same way as reality television. Precious fits neatly into this new pocket of sensorial…
When I was twelve my friend J got a guitar for Christmas because he was amazed by a Poison album called “Flesh and Blood.” I’d never thought about playing guitar…
Nina is my friend L’s dog. She’s black and furry, a mix between a Rottweiler and a Chow. Her tongue is dark purple and it hangs out of her mouth…
At the just-concluded Art History of Games symposium in Atlanta, Jason Rohrer presented a new game “Sleep is Death” as a response to the deluded quest for AI-based storytelling in…
“Shut your talking hole,” she told me. We were sitting in Tompkins Square Park on a sunny Saturday afternoon and I was knee deep in trying to explain how humans…
I was four the first time I saw a movie. My dad had a job teaching a summer session at UT Austin and in the evenings there was a program…
I remember being terrified the first time a reader said I should be fired in the comments of an article I’d written for IGN. I was still the new hire…
This is an article I wrote a year and a half ago about the election fallout in Zimbabwe. It was originally written for the the Financial Times Magazine in the…
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