Mikael Jakobsson

The Best Books of 2023

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.

Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’

Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us ‘Playing Oppression’

In Playing Oppression, scholars Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson lay bare the colonialist origins of board games.