I. Longing by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (trans. Paul McCarthy) – ★★★★ This is one dreamy, evocative and progressively eerie narrative of a ...

Burning Secret – ★★★★1/2 “I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my ...

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Among many spooky memento mori paintings, Hans Baldung’s The Knight, the Young Girl, & Death must be one of the most ...

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is a popular, highly influential series of ukiyo-e prints of Edo (now Tokyo)’s environs produced by Utagawa Hiroshige ...

Antidote to Venom – ★★★★ “…of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Evil but not Good tortured by its own hunger and ...

The Liar – ★★★★1/2 You say the most important thing as indirectly as possible in your story, and that is how you truly capture the attention and ...