Category: Arts & Entertainment
One Thing I Like About Opus
Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people
One Thing I Like About Black Sunday
An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror
Falling into Booktube
Rediscovering the intersection of art and commerce and my own overly-romanticized images of being an author
Literacy 2025: Book 7: How to Solve Your Own Murder
A solid cozy murder mystery by Kristen Perrin about a paranoid elderly woman who provided all the clues to solve her own murder
I am a functional adult who totally understood Moxyland
A spoiler-filled dive back into Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, to reassure myself that I got it
One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it
Literacy 2025: Book 5: Starter Villain
John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains
Literacy 2025: Book 4: Born to be Posthumous
Mark Dery’s comprehensive biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey
