Ever since 2017’s Colossal came out, I’ve been trying to find people to share it with. I’ve run into a wall. The people for whom the story might resonate are…
Tag: Culture
On Top Gun: Maverick, She-Hulk, and the Fear of Liking Things
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Some mornings, it can feel like you…
The Man Who Fell to Earth Creates a Believable Alien
Showtime’s new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, is a sequel to the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name, which…
This Is How It Feels to Build a Video Game and Watch It Die
Rautalahti stressed the value of digital preservation, although he sees fans and institutions like the Internet Archive as being more probable saviors than developers. “It really would be worthwhile to…
Dredd Deserves a Better Place in Alex Garland’s Filmography
On Friday, the 51-year-old English writer-director Alex Garland’s new movie, Men, opens in theaters. Garland’s not a celebrity auteur on the scale of your Martys, your Quentins, your PTAs. But…
A Letter to My Fellow Asian Mothers From the Multiverse
Like many Asian writers, I have never written about being Asian. The Asian adjacency to whiteness has something to do with it; I’ve never had to write about it. Also,…
The Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Battle Over History
This month, the world learned that the US Supreme Court intends to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case protecting legal abortion in America. In a draft majority opinion…
What’s the Deal With Synesthesia TikTok?
So what’s the deal with synesthesia on TikTok? Harrison says when he first met synesthetes four decades ago, they were reluctant to talk about their condition because they feared ridicule….
Pakistani Gamers Want a Seat at the Table
At a Medal of Honor tournament in Islamabad, Pakistan, an exasperated gamer stands up from his computer and demands that the player who keeps sniping him speak up. “Who is…
TikTok’s New, Terrible Trend
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The cat is wearing a blond wig….