This is how we all went ape in 2020

Wilma Cruise’s ‘The Thirteenth Hour’ depicts the collective state in which we find ourselves

07 December 2020 - 20:14 By Chris Thurman

“The Queen’s Gambit is the most satisfying show on television,” gushed Rachel Syme in The New Yorker magazine last month, and few people who have watched the series, finding in it much-needed succour as this torrid year draws to a close, would disagree. But there is also something irksome about what Syme identifies as the show’s appeal: “An unlikely synergy between the heady interiority of chess and the sensual realm of style.”..

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