Critical Hits
A collection of essays by writers who play video games resonates both as a cultural commentary and as a means of calling on shared experience. Review by Sara Holston
A collection of essays by writers who play video games resonates both as a cultural commentary and as a means of calling on shared experience. Review by Sara Holston
This look at the history of how data assumed its place of massive world importance is instructive, but its vision for an alternative to data’s role is fairly thin. Review by Jake Casale
Scorsese’s latest asks us to stop and look not just at the horrible crimes it depicts, but at what those crimes really cost. Review by Joseph Collum
Jeanne Murray Walker’s new memoir illustrates both the dangers and the ultimate rewards of exchanging certainty for faith. Review by Sarah Clark
The creator of Calvin & Hobbes has written a much darker book–but the unknown doesn’t have to bring us only to terror or indifference. There is another way. Review by Ali Holcomb
Khaled Anatolios’s expansive account of deification seeks to unify the various models of salvation under the banner of the Christian’s union with God. Review by Caleb Knox
Jane Austen’s most unlikeable heroine may hit a little too close to home for most of us—but also offers a clue to the real meaning of love. Review by Ali Holcomb
In The Knife Thrower’s Girl, Naomi Mulvihill explores the commonplace convergence of what brings us joy, and what leads to death.
The Tetris movie is a fun romp, but its attempt to show character development flops when it makes monetary gain the sole metric of success. Review by Chris Fogle
Reading children’s books as adults reminds us that, however comforting the idea of returning to our past, we must keep moving forward. Review by Sara Holston