The Best Books of 2023
It won’t surprise PopMatters readers that many of our best books of 2023 are excavations of our increasingly clamorous culture. It wasn’t a year for escapism.
Mary Flanagan
Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’
In Playing Oppression, scholars Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson lay bare the colonialist origins of board games.
Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’
In Critical Play, games scholar Mary Flanagan details the long history of games engaging with larger cultural issues and subverting exclusion