Arts + Culture

The Editors|Books

Your October reading list: The Design of Horror | The Horror of Design

A classic ghost story wrought with a faulty foundation. Bodies untamed and unethically built. Collapse through designs unfurled or too tightly wound. A meditation on the meaning of truly blank space.

AI Observer

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson|Analysis

Dancing with AI: how next-gen game designers are taking the lead

Step into Jonah King’s queer sci-fi virtual reality game Honey Fungus, and you’re immediately transported to a world that could only exist through the marriage of human imagination and machine learning. Floating through a viscous digital landscape, you encounter creatures that defy biological classification: lush beings that are part human torso, part exotic mushroom, with … Continued

Arts + Culture

Madison Jamar|Analysis

Dread for dinner: class anxiety is best served at the formal dining table

Even the strictest adherence to social norms can’t save the fractured families in ‘Hereditary,’ ‘The Invitation,’ and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ from the perils that abound around the table.