Flat Earthers are stupid, but they can teach us a thing or two about the internet in 2019
All in Essays
Flat Earthers are stupid, but they can teach us a thing or two about the internet in 2019
Where I try to understand how it made stereotypical ghosts scary again.
Our action heroes are inferior to those of the eighties and nineties and we’re (partly) to blame for that.
What better way to celebrate Die Hard’s anniversary than to watch it again to try and figure out the secret of its immortality?
Three ways Den of Thieves fail to live up to Heat, the movie it’s blatantly ripping off.
The death of the young rapper brings us back to a question we’ve been collectively dodging for decades: how do we want to remember abusive artists?
Hopefully, the first and last thing I ever write about Donald Trump, the rhetorics of division and the poor state of liberal ideology.
Is our collective obsession with the quintessential space opera ours or a fabrication of neoliberalism?
Fuck your hero's journey, you hear me? This is a boring-ass, cumbersome narrative structure that needs to be put to rest.
The idea of good vs evil is prevalent in our culture, but it's the most basic, boring narrative you can come up with. Be bold. Don't be a basic bitch.
Sam Wiebe is back on Dead End Follies to discuss the boundaries between genre and literary fiction again and tell you about a book he fucking hates.
Award-winning author Sam Wiebe drops by to talk about a Lawrence Block short story he particularly likes: Batman's Helpers, which conveys a lot more of social commentary than some mainstream literary fiction does.
I accidentally stumbled upon an old Zoe Williams article saying we should stop reading fiction in these times of crisis. I beg to differ.
