Jon Ingold finds most video game writing empty at best, turgid at worst. Ingold, an author of celebrated narrative-driven games including 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault,...
The most famous beastly sculpture in the college town of Athens, Ga., is — improbably — not a bulldog. It is an 11-foot-tall welded steel horse,...
Tucked away in the hills of Los Santos, a wondrous and lawless land, is the Vinewood Bowl, a gigantic amphitheater that typically sits empty. Modeled after...
“Saturday Night Live” begins the back half of its 50th season this weekend. Here, we kick off a series of features exploring and assessing its history...
Naomi Watts remembers being told that by the time she turned 40, her acting career would be finished. Now 56, she is fresh off a Golden...
A gay lawyer and his estranged mother confront the past when he takes on an asylum case in “Mothers and Sons.” In an email interview, the...
HELLO STRANGER: Musings on Modern Intimacies, by Manuel Betancourt About halfway through his new book, “Hello Stranger,” Manuel Betancourt recounts his experience in a college course...
According to the scholar Earl Miner, “The test for [allusion] is that it is a phenomenon some reader or readers may fail to observe.” He does...
WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We...
SCATTERGOOD, by H.M. Bouwman Narrated by 13-year-old Peggy Mott, part of a loving, tight-knit farm community, H.M. Bouwman’s new middle grade novel brims from the get-go...
