# The Underline

By Danny Sullivan

· Launched 4 years ago

[The peeling wallpaper of a decaying world](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/the-peeling-wallpaper-of-a-decaying)

[Backrooms, Covid, video games, slop, and the future of film](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/the-peeling-wallpaper-of-a-decaying)

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[Computers can only play games](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/computers-can-only-play-games)

[Computer Power and Human Reason, chapters 1-3](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/computers-can-only-play-games)

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[I was a ghost. I was the barber.](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/i-was-a-ghost-i-was-the-barber)

[The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/i-was-a-ghost-i-was-the-barber)

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[Dudes rock and business is booming](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/dudes-rock-and-business-is-booming)

[Tulsa King as the anti-Sopranos](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/dudes-rock-and-business-is-booming)

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[Perfect alexandrine lines in The Caboose Who Got Loose](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/perfect-alexandrine-lines-in-the)

[A rare instance of good verse in a children’s book](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/perfect-alexandrine-lines-in-the)

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[A portrait of the artist, burned out and in despair](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-artist-burned-out)

[Your Name Here (Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, 2025)](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-artist-burned-out)

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[I bet if we kissed you’d taste like a wild beast](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/i-bet-if-we-kissed-youd-taste-like)

[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)](https://theunderline.substack.com/p/i-bet-if-we-kissed-youd-taste-like)

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The Underline

Essays and reviews on books, film, video games. Current projects: Coen Brothers retrospective, Hideo Kojima Studies