And in The LondonReviewofBooks last year, John Lanchester called the first Modern Warfare game, published in 2007, “more involving” than the Hollywood movies with which it might be compared.
A protege of Karl Miller, he came to London to write for the LondonReviewofBooks and teach at UCL, but quickly gravitated to the TLS, where he worked for 14 years, six of them as deputy editor.