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Weekend Reading: America’s Ghost Wanted

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// The Family That Would Not Live, Colin Dickey, Longreads Sometimes it’s a trick of the light, but who knows when you’re sleeping in the most haunted house in America. In an excerpt from Ghostland: An American History in…

Leonard Cohen
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Weekend Reading: Closing Time

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker, David Remnick, The New Yorker With a career that’s touched the majority of a century, and a lifetime slipping into its twilight, Leonard Cohen has become entwined with thoughts of mortality of his…

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Weekend Reading: The Ugly Truth

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// Brutalism’s Aesthetic Legacy, Darran Anderson, White Noise A stain in some cities, a sight in others. Brutalism has touched many capitals in the last century, but as far as how they’ll be appreciated, Darran Anderson explains how its…

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Weekend Reading: Planes, Trains, and The X-Men

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// The X-Men and the Legacy of AIDS, Jackson Ayres, Los Angeles Review of Books The X-Men, in their inception, are commonly understood to be an analogy for the bigotry against people of color, but the comparisons of racism…

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Weekend Reading: Real Funny, Scary Funny, Real Scary

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// Where “It” Was, Adrian Daub, Los Angeles Review of Books Stephen King writes stories set in a specific place; those small and mysterious places that have to be felt, not seen, along the coast of New England. And…

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Weekend Reading: Disagree to Disagree

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// One Nation Divisible, Bloomberg To put things patronizingly lightly, the upcoming US election is a little contentious. Rollercoaster polls and sewer rhetoric doesn’t exactly enlighten us to understand how things arrived here. In a grand meta-feature, Bloomberg has…

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Weekend Reading: Hot Food, Expensive Taste, Cheap Ghosts

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// Pushing the ‘Ye Button, Rollie Pemberton, Hazlitt In his current metamorphosis, Kanye West, in his own words, aspires to be like Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs; creators with transcendent brands upon the globe. Of course, like Jobs’…

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Weekend Reading: I Am The Passenger

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// Perpetual Motion Machines, Chenoe Hart, Real Life As self-driving cars dawn over the horizon of the highway, it’s clear that the world might be transformed in ways that are still difficult to process. Chenoe Hart provides a wonderful…

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Weekend Reading: Ride The Lightning, Snakepit, and other tales unrelated to Metallica

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured our attention, and should also capture yours. /// The tragic story of Sheffield’s Park Hill bridge, Frances Byrnes, The Guardian In 2001, a man named Jason decided to one-up all the locks left behind on all the bridges, proposing to a woman named Clare with a…