Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Four
It's Eschaton time!! (Oh, and also David Foster Wallace predicts Trump.)
Lily Osler
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Episodes Monday Rundown August 10–16 2026
This week: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Spider-Man, and the Winnie-the-Pooh hot takes you've been waiting for.
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August mailbag! (preview)
A little preview of this month's mailbag!
Mailbag
August mailbag!
This month: the works of John Crowley, our personal AI policies, and movies that could have used a sex scene.
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Three
In which the book begins to find... a plot??
Sterling Point
Episodes Monday Rundown August 3–9 2026
This week: Sterling Point, Superman, and the state of the evangelical church in America.
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Check out what premium Episodes subscribers were reading in August!
Hello, beloved free subscribers! Last week, we finished up July, and with it a fruitful and exciting month for Episodes. We published nineteen original pieces this month, with new writing from us four times a week. Plus, we started our first-ever Episodes Book Club and (at long last!) opened
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat really could have used a frame narrative
The show's chaotic structure was fascinating, but would it have killed someone to just interview that damn vampire??
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Two
It's week two of our summer book club, and we're talking BODIES! Specifically, how having them sucks.
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The Episodes late-summer playlist
Check out our list of songs that remind us of this lovely, melancholy time of year!
hadestown
Episodes Monday Rundown July 27–August 2 2026
This week: Interview with the Vampire, another take on The Odyssey, and the Hadestown pro shot!
Charli xcx
The three deaths of Charli xcx's Music, Fashion, Film
Brat Summer isn't coming back, and that's okay.