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Gabriel Winslow-Yost is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (December 2024)
As You Like It
Sam Barlow’s video games may be the first efforts at interactive cinema—by either a game designer or a filmmaker—that work.
Choose Love
a film written by Josann McGibbon and directed by Stuart McDonald
Her Story
a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow
Telling Lies
a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow and cowritten by Amelia Gray
Immortality
a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow and cowritten by Barry Gifford, Amelia Gray, and Allan Scott
December 19, 2024 issue
Out of Time
Bill Watterson’s first book since Calvin and Hobbes envisions a medieval world on the brink of extinction.
The Mysteries
by Bill Watterson, illustrated by John Kascht and Bill Watterson
December 21, 2023 issue
‘This Is Not Your Grave’
A new graphic novel by Nick Drnaso lingers in the desire for change while Tommi Parrish’s latest focuses on the hard work of actually making change happen.
Acting Class
by Nick Drnaso
Men I Trust
by Tommi Parrish
July 20, 2023 issue
No Surprises
The comedian Nathan Fielder’s new HBO show is an expensive, painstakingly constructed machine for managing uncertainty.
The Rehearsal
an HBO series written and directed by Nathan Fielder and cowritten by Carrie Kemper and Eric Notarnicola
December 22, 2022 issue
Exhausting All Possibilities
The video game The Stanley Parable is about what it means to be free in a tightly constrained simulated world.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
a video game written and designed by Davey Wreden and William Pugh
August 18, 2022 issue
Video Games: The Secret Life
How games work and what they can mean
Gamelife: A Memoir
by Michael W. Clune
God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit
by Liel Leibovitz
October 8, 2015 issue
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