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Trivial Pursuits

David Runciman: Gamification, 4 June 2026

The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game 
by C. Thi Nguyen.
Allen Lane, 353 pp., £25, January, 978 0 241 65397 5
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... lie in wait for unwary participants in just about any online (and indeed offline) activity. C. Thi Nguyen wants us to recognise the enormous difference between these two ways of playing. One offers rich human experiences. The other threatens to turn all human experiences into a measurable and marketable product. The reason we might muddle them up is ...

This is the new communism

Mark Philip Bradley: Modern Vietnam, 15 December 2016

The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam 
by Christopher Goscha.
Allen Lane, 634 pp., £30, June 2016, 978 1 84614 310 6
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... posters. The posters themselves, seldom seen outside Vietnam, are fascinating. But even Trinh Thi Ngo, ‘Hanoi Hannah’, the notorious broadcaster for the Voice of Vietnam who died in September, might have raised an eyebrow at the exhibition’s own propagandistic angle. A caption under a poster celebrating the North Vietnamese victory in April 1975 ...

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