The Thousand Faces of King Arthur – How Does Time Choose What Survives?
What determines which parts of a story survive for centuries? The story of King Arthur.
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True Detective – Cage, Banderas and a Strange Series
What made the first season of True Detective so distinctive, how has the series changed since then, and what connects its different stories? The past and future of a rather unusual franchise.
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Set the Ripple in Motion – Play with Worldinterflow!
Try the Worldinterflow game and watch what unfolds from just a few small movements.
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Everyday Life at the End of the World – Justin Cronin’s Strange World
Vampires, the end of the world, and a story spanning centuries of humanity’s struggle to survive. Justin Cronin’s *The Passage* trilogy is more than a simple survival story: it is a tale about a remarkable world, fear, and the power of love.
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The Vampire’s Journey – How the Bloodsucker Changed Over the Centuries
By the time we got to Blade or Edward Cullen’s sunlight-sparkling vampire, the bloodsucker had already gone through countless transformations.
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Warner Has Been Sold – But It’s Not Going to Netflix
The Warner–Paramount merger is creating a new Hollywood media empire. What could it mean for movies, streaming and creators – and how much influence do viewers have over any of it?
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How Did The Lord of the Rings Change the Way We See the World?
How did Tolkien’s world come into being? How did old, varied myths become the kind of coherent fantasy world we now take for granted?
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Horror Can Be Cute Too – The Gremlins Are Coming Back
The 1984 Gremlins was cute for a horror movie and horrifying for a children’s film. In the end, it helped force Hollywood to introduce an entirely new age rating: PG-13.
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Sherlock Holmes Came Back from the Dead – How Investigation Became a Cultural Phenomenon
How did investigation become a literary genre, mass entertainment, a game – and one of culture’s most popular ways of understanding the world?
