H.G. Wells’s century-old wargaming rules kicked off the hobby and helped spawn everything from tabletop RPGs to big-budget video games.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, May 3, 2013
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The Art of Don E. Knuth
Computing’s philosopher king argues for elegance in programming—and a Pulitzer Prize for the best written. Continue reading “The Art of Don E. Knuth”
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
Financial Times, weekend section, September 4/5, 1999
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Crackpot Authorities
From Wilhelm Reich to Julian Jaynes to H.W. Fowler, I sing of the brilliant, the ambitious and the just a bit mad. Continue reading “Crackpot Authorities”
Whipping Up A Storm
Two biographies of the Marquis de Sade aim to set the record straight about the depraved nobleman Continue reading “Whipping Up A Storm”
Characters that pack a punch
Review of Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, by Thom Jones Continue reading “Characters that pack a punch”