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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii review: a swashbuckling success with strange showering
12 copies of the same photo book have just been sold to the same loveable idiot. Thankfully, he’s got a pirate ship to store them on. It’s crewed by a mishmash of weirdos from all walks of life, who’ll actually become better at the whole swashbuckling thing if they’re gifted one of these tomes. But…
How ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ evolved from lockdown escape to Shakespearean success
During the dark days of lockdown, we all found ways to connect. Some of us ran Zoom quizzes with mates. Some of us hit play on the same movie as our family on the other side of the world. Some of us staged an immersive, independent, multi-location production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet within the world of…
An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?
To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar. Rankings are ubiquitous: every week, lists of best-selling records, movies, and books are released, and in sports like…