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The Top 200 Android Video Games, Vol. 6
A former Indiewire digital culture reviewer ranks the best games for Android phones, looking for games that are art as well as entertainment. This list…
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The Consensus Top 100 Underrated NES Games of All Time, Vol. 2
Now that you can use an emulator to play the 900+ Nintendo Entertainment System games, which titles that were overlooked in the 1980s and 1990s are most…
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Singular Songs of the Seventies, Vol. 1
A genre-spanning selection of semi-obscure musical wonders from the 1970s, curated by a former DJ and including salubrious tracks from around the world…
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The Top 100 Twitter Alternatives, Vol. 8
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The Best AI Art in the World, Vol. 5
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The Rise and Fall of Neal Stephenson
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Remembering Nintendo Power, Vol. 1: The Official Top 50 NES Games As of 35 Years Ago Today
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What the Verification Wars at Twitter Are Really All About
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The Best AI Art in the World, Vol. 7
This new Retro series—curated by a longtime professional cultural critic and former Digital Arts professor at University of New Hampshire—highlights…
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Here Are Ten More Sixties Dances that Should Go Viral on TikTok, Now That Dodie Stevens’ “Pink Shoelaces” Has Lit the World on Fire Thanks…
“Pink Shoelaces”—choreographed in a complex style that probably would have been out of place in the 1960s—is a huge hit on TikTok. But here are ten real…
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The Best AI Art in the World, Vol. 6
This new Retro series—curated by a longtime professional cultural critic and former Digital Arts professor at University of New Hampshire—highlights…
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The Rise and Fall of Neal Stephenson
How and why I came to abandon my favorite author—and why I think others should, too.
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The Recent Controversy Over the Posthumous Editing of Roald Dahl’s Books is About Fascism and Parental Rights—Just Not in the Way You Think
Few literary scandals have unfolded in a more depressingly misguided way than the brouhaha over edits to the work of a beloved children's author made at…
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Five Poems From Metamericana (2015)
These experimental metamodern poems explore five distinct post-internet concepts.
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