Sketching an Uncertain Future Eleanor Davis is one of the very best cartoonists working today. November 2, 2019
Somnolent Thailand Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film Cemetery of Splendor, the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul’s career, is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, underlain at every moment by rage and dread. March 13, 2016
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
Russia's Darkest Filmmaker The wonder about late Russian filmmaker Alexei German’s Hard to Be a God is not that it took so long to make, it’s that it got made at all. January 31, 2015
Comics in the Trenches Jacques Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches is one of the most passionately bleak works in the history of comics. August 6, 2014
Parasites in Eden “I draw a lot of weird doodles on scraps of paper,” says the Canadian cartoonist Jesse Jacobs—true of most cartoonists, no doubt. But few cartoonists’ work is as suffused with the spirit of the doodle as Jacobs’s. June 6, 2014
The Joys of ‘Mere’ One of the joys of Mere, the new book by the cartoonist C.F., is how thoroughly it resists categorization, or even basic explanation. July 22, 2013
A Mind Among Pigs While we have some idea of what is going on in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, we have no idea how we’re supposed to feel about it. May 10, 2013
A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel The intricately bleak work of Chris Ware Building Stories by Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware The ACME Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware The ACME Novelty Library #20 by Chris Ware The ACME Novelty Library Final Report to Shareholders and Saturday Afternoon Rainy Day Fun Book by Chris Ware Quimby the Mouse or, Comic Strips, 1990–1991 by Chris Ware See all reviewed works See less December 20, 2012 issue
The ‘Stalker’ Game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl a video game by GSC Game World S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky a video game by GSC Game World S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat a video game by GSC Game World June 21, 2012 issue
In the Zone of Alienation: Tarkovsky as Video Game Zona, Geoff Dyer’s recent book about Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, has been much discussed for its almost comically thorough dissection of the celebrated 1979 art film. And yet, after reading it, I was left feeling that something was missing. May 1, 2012
