ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Game not over yet
The video games industry needs a revolution, says SCOTT ALSWORTH, recalling the inspirational role of dissident radicals at the heart of US military establishment who started it all
NEVER SAY NEVER: (L to R) Poster, by unknown artist, calling on students across US to protest against Nixon's bombing of Cambodia; Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1
[PDP-1 pic Joi Ito/Creative Commons]
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
IT’S hard to imagine now but the first video games were developed on stolen time.
They were curiosities, programmed by “hackers,” works of idle play that have reached us in something like a fennel stalk — concealing a gift of fire that has set the entertainment industry ablaze.
Today, the US military-industrial complex would rather we forgot such awkward truths. Awkward, because they unwittingly bankrolled them.
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