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How Family Ties Influence the Creation of Indie Games
These excerpts from the new book 'Independent By Design: Art & Stories of Indie Game Creation' focus on three studios revolve around singular partnerships.
What It Was Like to Be Joseph Kony's Bodyguard
An excerpt from 'When the Walking Defeats You', a book about a young man who became one the bodyguard to one of the 21st century's most notorious warlords before making his escape.
Read an Excerpt From ‘120 Years of Vlambeer & Friends’
The Dutch indie studio behind ‘Nuclear Throne’ and ‘LUFTRAUSERS’ is the subject of a story-so-far book – read a chapter exclusively on Waypoint.
Vintage Photos of New York and Boston That Look Like 'Stills from a Horror Film'
These street photos by Richard Sandler are "also a love-letter. A love-letter to our world and everyone around us," writes Jonathan Ames in the photographer's new book 'The Eyes of the City.'
'Alas for the Fat One!': How the Victorians Thought Women Should Look
In her new book "Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners," Therese Oneill details all the ways it sucked to be a woman in the 19th century, from scary-looking birth control devices to impossible standards of body image.
'Universal Harvester': An Excerpt from John Darnielle's New Novel
Bob spent most of the year by himself in a farmhouse on a property he owned outside Collins. If he still hunted or fished, it wasn't with anybody he'd known back when he lived in town: Nobody really knew what Bob did with his time.
How Lady Gaga Became the First Digi-Glam Superstar
Read this remixed excerpt from Simon Reynolds's book 'Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy.'
What It’s Like to Take Opioids for Pain
Read an excerpt from Carlyn Zwarenstein's 'Opium Eater: The New Confessions' about a writer's struggle with opiates to cure her chronic pain.
An Exclusive First Look Inside Emma Cline's 'The Girls'
Read an excerpt from Cline's mesmerizing debut novel about about teenage girls in a free love commune cult in 1969.
I Traveled to Every Supreme Store in the World to Understand the Meaning of Supreme
Read an exclusive excerpt from 'Supremacist,' a book about the cult of Supreme that's written by a guy who's obsessed with the streetwear brand, despite not knowing how to skate.
I Wrote 150 Porno Novels in Five Years
In an excerpt from 'Sin-a-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties,' the legendary science fiction writer Robert Silverberg divulges how he and other authors learned to write smut.
How ‘No Man’s Sky’ and ‘Elite Dangerous’ Harness the Feeling of Real Exploration
The sci-fi adventure of this summer, and Frontier's similarly ambitious epic, both use procedural generation. But what does that really mean?