digital culture

For the final month, Redditors within the Nier: Automata group have been attempting to unravel a thriller. It includes a secret door, a church allegedly hidden within the recreation for 5 years, and roughly 175,000 followers debating…

It has been eight days since Minions: The Rise of Gru premiered, and American movie theaters have not yet recovered. Gru-goers have arrived by the thousands, many wearing formal suits, cheering loudly, and occasionally pelting the screen…

In the bleary, no-sleep nights following the birth of my son, I spent an unholy amount of time looking at my phone. Too tired to read, too addled to even handle a podcast, I distracted myself with TikToks, tweets, and Instagram posts.…

Sometimes you just want to read a book with a plot. You know, the kind where people meet each other, go places, fall in love, fight, fall out of love, even die—a good, old-fashioned story. Jordan Castro’s new novel, cheekily titled The…

Greg Weber began gambling at 13, playing poker with his friends for small stakes after school. Weber, who is 32 now, and a New Jersey native, grew up in the wake of the Moneymaker effect—a boom in poker interest sparked when a…

Let’s say—just for the sake of argument, of course—that you hate yourself. Given this, three specifics about your life may be assumed. One is that you nostalgize a certain period of your past. High school, college, whatever—you miss it.…

In 2012, when a species of Karner blue butterfly in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore park suddenly perished during a summer of intensifying climate catastrophe, Gregor W. Schuurman, who at the time was working as a conservation…