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The Improbable Messages You Never Received, And I Almost Never Sent 

Varvara Kamp -
A poem in prose

Reminder: VOTE PLEASE

Toby Brogsdale -
Yes, you do have to vote in the 2026 midterm elections

The Scariest Queer Icon

Mark Löbner -
How the Babadook stepped out of the closet and into the queer spotlight

Fake Blood, Puppets, and Trash

Lucas Delagarza -
6 charmingly bad films for your Halloween watchlist

ACME vs. REVOLUTION

Lillian Earls -
What a Coyote can teach us about resilience under oppression 

From Phone Screen to Big Screen

Ivan Lee -
Why YouTubers are beating Hollywood in horror

Fish & Gin

Bekah Rossman -
A personal essay about childhood

Darlings

Electra McNeil -
Two epistolary prose poems

Loving the Monster: ‘Resident Evil’ Resurrected

Sidne K. Gard -
Beloved horror video game franchise finally succeeds on the silver screen

Queer Horrors

Kit Montgomery -
‘There is still time’ to see all of Jane Schoenbrun’s films before they come to the Gene Siskel 

Irene Adler, Lost in Translation

Ash Ahmad -
How Sherlock Holmes adaptations fail women

Cassatt x Miller

Serena Fox -
2 boundary breaking female artists, 2 very different exhibits

Darger’s Paper Trail

Anna Strzepek -
A review of the Intuit Art Museum’s new paper craft exhibition

Bruce LaBruce Takes Risks

Mio Sow -
A conversation with an innovator of queercore cinema

A different kind of Magnificent Mile

Egor Goryachikh -
A comprehensive guide to galleries on (and around) Chicago Avenue