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Out of this world

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 26, 2008

Pole sitter

Interview: Werner Herzog ponders the end of the world
Speaking to the legendary German filmmaker is like speaking to God.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

The illusionist

Anish Kapoor at the ICA
Kapoor’s work looks like nothing in reproduction; you have to experience it in person to get it.
By GREG COOK | June 06, 2008

What is Filk?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the DIURNAL atmospheric DISEQUILIBRIUM
Filk’s not so much a genre as a state of being.
By GEORGIANA COHEN | March 20, 2008

The Signal

Too many weird gimmicks
There should be a rule in science fiction that there can’t be more than one weird gimmick.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2008

No advil, no booze

Sampling the Frozen Food Section
...Musing on science fiction, existentialism, and stalker ex-husbands.
By BEN WESTHOFF | February 05, 2008

Born again

James McAvoy and Atonement
Four years ago, Scottish actor James McAvoy starred in an adaptation of the Frank Herbert classic Children of Dune for the Sci-Fi channel.
By COLE HADDON | December 05, 2007

Excellent Italian interview

Steve Albini speaks
Steve Albini is a pretty nerdy guy.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | October 23, 2007

Hero worship

In praise of Stan Lee’s reality-TV gem
The lesson of the Sci-Fi Channel’s Who Wants To Be a Superhero? might seem obvious.
By ADAM REILLY | September 12, 2007

Sound bites

Sunshine sheds little light on the sci-fi genre
In space, so the tag line for Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien goes, nobody can hear you scream.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 18, 2007

The man who knew too much

Philip K. Dick enters the Library of America
Around the age of 13, Philip K. Dick started having a recurring dream.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 28, 2007

Unburied treasure

Brown's Pulp Uncovered festival
Don’t throw out anything.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 13, 2007

2006 restaurant awards

The best of this year’s dining
Well, here we are in our imaginary tuxedos, passing out imaginary awards for fine-dining experiences — culinary performances which are sometimes hard to repeat and usually go undocumented.
By ROBERT NADEAU | December 20, 2006

Movies from outer space

From the tsars to the stars at Harvard
Our new-found DVD-ness and cable-TV luxury notwithstanding, movies have always been a public medium, a spatial experience we share in the theater and a topical experience we share in the culture at large.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 30, 2006

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