Culture Desk
Conversations about movies, television, theatre, music, and other cultural events.
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
A film about a performance of “Hamlet” within the world of Grand Theft Auto suggests that the moral environment of revenge tragedy is not far from that of video games.
Revisiting “The Plot Against America”
I read and reread Philip Roth’s book to try to understand the present, to make sense of what may happen.
