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“Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt. By Charles Finch The nominees for the ...

Local studio In Praise of Shadows has added a curved wooden salon bar to the BioRio cinema in Hornstull, Stockholm, which it refurbished to create a "warm and inviting atmosphere". The studio was ...

or another Batman comic book, watching The Office, or working on another model kit from the Mobile Suit Gundam series. If you have waited a long time to play AC Shadows, it might have unpleasantly ...

Do you want to parkour across the rooftops under the cover of darkness, slitting throats and making it seem like you were never even there? Naoe is your girl. Shadows does the brutal, almost ...

Shadows claws Assassin's Creed out of the rut of tall grass, waist-high cover, and instakill bows that big-budget games have been stuck in for a decade. Shadows is a leap in the right direction ...

By T Bone Burnett In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner “Only men understand the secret fears that go with the territory ...

With her second novel, 'Retreat,' actor Krysten Ritter delivers another thriller fronted by a gutsy, feisty female ...

Is a revolution of standards in public life the key to tackling our intertwined environmental crises? A compelling book argues it is.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It felt good to see Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonist Naoe's face nearly healed after the 50-hour journey through 16th-century Japan.