There are lots of reasons I love Netflix’s new animated series Blue Eye Samurai. Beautiful animation? Oh yes. Great soundtrack? That too. Intriguing character arcs? You betcha. The main characters—revenge-fueled…
There are two kinds of black lipsticks in the world. There’s the kind you buy because it’s Halloween and you’re going as Wednesday Addams, and then there’s the kind you…
Winter is the best time to shoot photos in cemeteries. Depending on your luck and your location, you might be treated to dark, skeletal branches in the trees, snow falling…
The Evil Dead Rise franchise has existed since 1981 and since then people have endured the batshit nature of Deadites and those who try to defeat them. It started with…
Rival Sons have been knocking my proverbial socks off since I first listened to their album Head Down over 10 years ago, and this wild-west flavored, death-defiant track from their 2023 album Darkfighter, is no exception. The lyrics always make me think of The Iliad, and how the reaper will eventually claim every one of us, no matter who we are and what we do.
Anime is a storytelling medium with an established history of exploring death through the liminal and the metaphysical, particularly in terms of alternate dimensions, original afterlife landscapes, and delightfully disturbing…
I caught up with Trevor Foster, naturalist and sculptor, across a 12-hour time difference. The University of Washington graduate lives in Thailand now, my morning dialing into his nightfall. I…
Love, Death & Robots is the culmination of a decades long desire to re-imagine the long in-development reboot of the animated science fiction movie Heavy Metal. Netflix eventually showed interest…
During my undergraduate studies, I read Beloved by Toni Morrison four times, and I’m planning to reread it again sometime soon. Back then, I read it more with an academic…
Indra Das’s fantasy novella The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar is many things, all at once. It’s a coming-of-age tale about Ru, a boy who grows up in Calcutta, India in…
