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Puppets of the Digital Age

We associate puppets with theater or street performances: the stock characters of the Italian Commedia dell’arte, the Greek shadow play

It’s 2003 and there’s a baby in the NICU, the neonatal intensive care unit, at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. He

Juan Carlos was always sick, but we didn’t know what that meant. He had a special breathing treatment machine in

Helle and Death by Oskar Jensen is a striking resuscitation of what often feels like the age-old murder mystery. This

There is, I think, in most people, a very human fear of mortality—the way we often tend to be unsettled

Silent City by Sarah Davis-Goff is a post-apocalyptic novel set in Ireland. It takes place an unspecified number of years

They call her L’Inconnue de la Seine, and no one knows her name but she left behind one of the

Love, Death and Robots season three is more concise than season one and just one episode longer than season two.

If you’ve spent enough time on social media, you might have eventually discovered the weirder, goth-er, more macabre corners of

There is only one American memorial to the victims of the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918, the so-called Spanish Flu.