Step right up–Noir Carnival is now available for your reading pleasure! Nineteen stories–“a heady mix of shadows and candy floss, dreams gone sour and nights that go on too long. Let them lure you into the tent“–including one by The Cultural Gutter‘s own Carol Borden. Read more at […]
Steven Heller writes about Maurice Sendak and treating “children like the intelligent little animals that we know they are.”
Pornokitsch finishes determining essential epic fantasy, with statistics, graphs and lists of their selections. Nice to see Homer in there.
The AV Club consider the emotional impact of Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding episode. Gus Mustrapa considers pranks, punchlines, Schadenfreude and the Red Wedding: “This weekend a booby-trap three years in the making was sprung. Millions of TV viewers watching A Game of Thrones took the proverbial blow. A […]
Jess Nevins writes about Sato Minoru’s The Foreign Farm (1931), Japanese science fiction in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries and “the White Peril.”
Tenth Letter of the Alphabet examines the elaboration of the Star Wars logo–with an extensive gallery of images!