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On Exit Party and being a time traveler

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On Exit Party and being a time traveler

Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week 10

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week 10

We come to the end and grapple with Infinite Jest as a whole and what to make of the book's legacy

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On Twin Peaks, the world ended long ago. Now, we live in the ashes.

This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend.

The New York Times top 100 TV shows and the always slippery TV canon

The New York Times

The New York Times top 100 TV shows and the always slippery TV canon

In: Exit Party, Forgotten Island. Out: the idea that it should be easy to build a TV canon!!

Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you

Resident Evil

Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you

The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think

A small child in a purple dress holds a copy of Infinite Jest in front of their face. They stand in front of a bunch of dark green plants and a brick wall.

Infinite Jest

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine

Lily and Emily consider the impossible: might Infinite Jest be... self-involved?

The sign outside of Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life, which reads, helpfully, "You are now in Bedford Falls." It is snowing on the sign.

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Beyond Bedford Falls: 15 other fictional small towns we'd love to live in

Including towns full of cartoon ducks, free health care, and monstrous vampires who provide low, low housing costs

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