I’m the sort of nerd that doesn’t play videogames, but since college one of my favorite entertainment activities has been watching people with far greater skills play Grand Theft Auto. And unless you’ve been spending eighteen hours a day in a dark, windowless room (a situation not uncommon in my other line of work, theater acting), you notice that GTA IV is out. It is far, far better written, acted, and produced than most plays I’ve seen. Or heard about. Or been involved in.

So what does the preeminent art form of the twenty-first century have to say about the preeminent art form of the negative tenth through nineteenth?