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Adam McGovern

The Electoral Kool-Aid Market Test

A reliable irony of human perception is that you can see across to the bubble that others are encased in, while not noticing that you are…

Mar 24, 2024

The Electoral Kool-Aid Market Test

Mar 24, 2024

Minus One and Counting

What a difference seven years can make, or one election night, one last day on earth. Shin Godzilla (2016) was in many ways the definitive…

Dec 31, 2023

Minus One and Counting

Dec 31, 2023

Choose Your Own Armageddon

We don’t have to hear the trees to know they’re all falling. The doom feed is continuous — though by definition, we don’t feel it. The…

Aug 18, 2021

Choose Your Own Armageddon

Aug 18, 2021

The Superhood

Established fantasy franchises put a lot of energy into “building out” their worlds. The really memorable ones know how to let their…

Mar 31, 2021

The Superhood

Mar 31, 2021

Play With Fire

Prophecy’s not so difficult when both gods and mortals are so predictable. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and its lessons play on a…

Mar 25, 2021

Play With Fire

Mar 25, 2021

Wilderness Years

What if being alone is what we were really all waiting for? Isolation is the defining sensation of the 2020s, perceived as a passing trial…

Mar 17, 2021

Wilderness Years

Mar 17, 2021

All I Want for Christmas

When lies become law, fables become duty. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 preserves its predecessor’s dreamlike texture and fairytale…

Dec 27, 2020

All I Want for Christmas

Dec 27, 2020

Yell Cut

Can we ever live up to our mistakes? It’s a question pressing on all postmodern artmakers who wish to both proclaim and disclaim their…

Oct 6, 2020

Yell Cut

Oct 6, 2020

Terminal Romantic

Originally published at HiLobrow.com on February 14, 2020

Feb 17, 2020

Terminal Romantic

Feb 17, 2020

The Inheritance

Life is best understood sideways, and preferably not by the person who’s lived it. The shape that playwright Edward Einhorn’s family…

Feb 14, 2020

The Inheritance

Feb 14, 2020

Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern is a comicbook writer, poet, corporate semiotician and freelance agitator living in New Jersey.

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