Emily C. Hughes

In Praise of the Slump-Buster

Look, we love books, but even we have reading slumps–here's what they look like, and how we get ourselves out of them.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.

Let Them Fight: Hokum (2026)

In this edition of Let Them Fight, Emily and Anna tussle over Hokum, the third movie from rising star Damien McCarthy.

Dead Country: An Ode to Karen Russell's "Proving Up"

Karen Russell's Western Gothic tale is the scariest short story you've never read.

Let Them Fight: Men (2022)

Fascinating folk horror or f*cked up gender commentary? Alex Garland's surreal and divisive film gets the Let Them Fight treatment.

Let Them Fight: Incidents Around the House

To Daddo or to Daddon't? That is... well, it's certainly *a* question.

Hatchet Job: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Eleven?

How Stranger Things failed its breakout character.