Peter Hoskin
Books and Culture Editor at Prospect Magazine
Games Critic at Daily Mail
Books & Culture Editor for @prospect_uk. Games critic (and occasional films and books) for @DailyMailUK
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hoskin
Days Gone Remastered (PlayStation 5, £44.99)Verdict: Back from the deadRating:As Dinah Washington almost sang, what a difference six-and-a-bit years makes. When Sony first released Days Gone as its latest, PlayStation-exclusive blockbuster back in 2019, most gamers were unimpressed — and you can kind of see why.
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2 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Peter Hoskin
The Tree of LifeMax Telford (John Murray (UK) W. W. Norton (US, 11 November))Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches, each describing a turn in evolutionary history. Over here are the molluscs. Over there, the apes. Look closer in that general area and you might even find us, . But do any of us truly marvel at this giant tree, as…
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hoskin
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £44.99)Verdict: Fancy fantasyRating:Ooh, fancy! For that is the only permissible response to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It’s got a fancy name. It’s set in a fancy fantasy version of fancy Belle Époque France. It’s got fancy graphics and a fancy combat system. So, like I say, fancy. Let’s take those things in turn, starting with the fantasy setting.
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3 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Peter Hoskin
ProtoLaura Spinney (HarperCollins (UK) Bloomsbury Publishing (US, 13 May))A new book by Laura Spinney is rather tantalisingly called , begging the question: proto-what? Prototype, the earliest version of a technology? Protoplasm, the stuff of our cells? Or even protoplanet, a small hunk of space rock with a big future ahead? The answer, in fact, sits above and across those words: Proto-Indo-European.
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3 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hoskin
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This was indeed an enjoyable conversation! Not least because @LeorZmigrod's THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN – about the amazing neuroscience of our beliefs – is surely one of the books of the year.
On a beautiful spring afternoon in London I sat with @pghoskin from @prospect_uk for one of the most enjoyable conversations about The Ideological Brain 🌻 The last line of the review is probably my favourite :) Find the interview here: https://t.co/WZrTqP6CAO https://t.co/4EOnfcNGQg
Being a #BGPrize2024 judge was one of the most enjoyable, most rewarding things I've ever done. I hope the new batch have just as good a time. But I also hate them all a little – out of jealousy and because they've supplanted the best-ever judging panel.
Meet the #BGPrize2025 judges - chaired by @thetimes / ST lit ed @RobbieTimes, they are: @UniofOxford lecturer @pratinavanil; biographer and previous winner of the prize @LucyHH; journalist and broadcaster @InayaFolarin; @TheEconomist's Rachel Lloyd; and author @PParkerWriting: https://t.co/jAKYxHm6aR
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