The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for asking for forgiveness, since I missed Sunday Papers entirely last weekend. Alas, I was stricken by a deep malaise, but I return now with renewed vigour and another roundup of links to good writing from across the web. Some of the good writing is even about games this time.
For the LA Review Of Books, Celine Nguyen reviewed Building SimCity, Chaim Gingold's book about the creation of SimCity.