Effortlessly Made, Deceptively Layered: The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
Alexis Ong reviews a novel that "starts evaporating onto a higher plane of confusion as soon as you start reading it."
Swagger, Heart, and Cosmic Horror: A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel
Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut novel is "one of the most delightful books I've read in a minute," writes Alexis Ong.
Roman Sands Re:Build review - a fiendish immersive sim drenched in a vaporwave glitchcore palette
Last resort.
Control Resonant review - more scale, but less narrative bite than its sibling
Faden out.
Inside the weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle...
A feed of incredible, but totally imagionary retro-style video games becomes a window into nostalgia and fiction.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review - it's the RPG we don't deserve
Portofiro loathing in La Luz.
The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down
Titanium Court is a seemingly confusing mixture of many different genres. I can’t get enough.
Allison Mick's Humboldt Cut Is Ambitious and Full of Personality
"A rich feast of dark comedy, horror, historical drama, and eco-surrealism"
In Moves of the Diamond Hand, the vibes so far are transcendent
Time and punishment.
Esoteric Ebb review - camp and cutting political comedy in a D&D Disco Elysium wrapper
Flow state.
Boarding School Trouble and Trauma: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
Alexis Ong reviews "a must-read for boarding school fiction junkies."
Theodora Goss’s Excellent Letters From an Imaginary Country Explores Genre, Gender Politics, and Identity
Alexis Ong reviews a "thoroughly inspiring, beautifully written corpus on the possibilities and politics of place."
The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter
Already a hit in Japan, the oddball Sausage Legend is primed to go global.
Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile review - it's just fine
Hercule as a cucumber.
Death Stranding 2 is the World's Fair we deserve
On the ground at the World Expo in Osaka, with Hideo Kojima's game of global connections on the mind.
The New You Begins: A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussain
This review of Omar Hussain's new thriller begins in 3, 2, 1…
Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World Might Give You Nightmares
Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.
A Medieval Myth: Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey
A dark medieval fantasy full of twisted folklore, macabre magic, and the strangest of found families…
Yellowjackets continues to stretch itself thin in season 3
The teen survival show may have bitten off more than it can chew.
Waterblack by Alex Pheby Is a Remarkably Self-Aware Series Finale
A review of Alex Pheby’s new fantasy novel
To build something that outlasts the present: a Review of Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
My struggle with Memory Piece began with turning a slow and uncomfortable eye toward my own..
Beautifully Understated, Effortlessly Atmospheric: Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
Pink Slime unfolds in my hands with a customary string of lively blurbs, one invoking the well-worn name of J.G. Ballard...
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC review
Tarnished.
An Evocative, Surreal Debut: Mouth by Puloma Ghosh
A review of Puloma Ghosh's new short story collection.
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