Abigail Nussbaum continues her “Great Tolkien Reread” with The Hobbit. “Tolkien’s celebrated affinity for worldbuilding means that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings clearly take place in the same invented world, but it’s precisely at those points that the two works overlap that the differences between […]
The journey from unfair to unjust is a twisted maze, one littered with false starts and dead ends; it’s also, significantly, the journey undertaken in Labyrinth, from childhood to adulthood, powerlessness to power.
At Asking the Wrong Questions, Abigail Nussbaum continues the Great Tolkien Reread with “A Knife in the Dark” and “Flight to the Ford” from The Fellowship Of The Ring, Book 1. “These chapters contain some of the novel’s most memorable events, but taken as a whole they feel […]
Brennan Lee Mulligan returns to The Adventure Zone as the McElroy family once again delves into the Dadlands! “The Dads are back! Brickett, Guy, Red, and Chip must make their way through conceptual reality and fight the four evil Uncles in order to defeat Walton Goggins and bring […]
“It’s not so much where to begin as when, though in London the distinction between time and space broke down centuries ago. There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into […]
At Monstrous Industry, the Gutter’s own Carol lists some of her favorite pieces and doings from 2025. See them here.
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