Food for the Worm

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EVERYTHING IS FRANKENSTEIN
Another new monster for our new age of enlightenment
Oct 26, 2025

January 2025

SURVIVING SUBURBIA
Why won't you be my neighbor?
Jan 25, 2025

November 2024

In search of The Substance
Criticism as an investigation of choices
Nov 30, 2024

September 2024

Something funny happened on the way to the morgue
When a corpse becomes comedy
Sep 28, 2024

June 2024

THIS DOES NOT FEEL LIKE HOME TO ME
A not-quite Midsommar’s ode to the internet of yore
Jun 7, 2024

January 2024

rumination on true detective season 1
Biker gangs, revivalists, feds, all God-damned one way or the other.
Jan 27, 2024
We read, we watched, we cried, we screamed
BOOKWORM comes to a close - or does it?
Jan 22, 2024
Guest Writer: BAD DAD
If a man thinks dark thoughts, but never commits them, is he still violent?
Jan 14, 2024

December 2023

Guest Writer: STANOPTICON
Celia Mattison on obsessive male violence, the victims swept into it, the society that permits it, and the woman unable to counteract it in 1981's The…
Dec 10, 2023

November 2023

Guest Writer: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (WITH GORE)
YA author Sky Regina on the impact of R.L. Stine's Fear Street in the wake of book bans
Nov 11, 2023

October 2023

A DREAM OF STONE LIONS
Bookworm part one: We enter Hill House
Oct 31, 2023

September 2023

Guest Writer: OUR SLASHERS, OURSELVES
Noah Berlatsky on 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' and the slasher fallacy of every man for himself
Sep 28, 2023
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