DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
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Video Games Monitor with Scott Alsworth: January 3, 2023
When the best of intentions pave the road to boredom
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JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
Night in the Woods
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NIGHT in the Woods is one of those games that seems to insist the world’s gone mad.
Not because you find yourself in the shoes of a pansexual cat with spaghetti legs who pokes severed arms with sticks for fun. And not because non-anthropomorphic animals aren’t triggering an existential crisis (Mr Wharton the pigeon is apparently quite unfazed by ordinary pigeons on the street).
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