Monthly Archives: June 2023

The premise of this novel is that a young woman wakes up to find that she has written Baudelaire’s complete works. But it’s not a gimmicky postmodern sort of book — more like a beautiful, meandering meditation on being a woman artist. I loved it.

My soon-to-be-6-year-old child generally refuses to watch movies, preferring various youtube videos (of people unboxing toys, or playing with toys, or computer-generated animations of balls rolling down ramps, or very amateurish films with weird little plots — all kinds of things. I understand this is A Thing with this generation, but it is so deeplyContinueContinue reading “Ponyo”

The thought crossed my mind, as I was reading this, that it’s sort of funny how you can basically get me to read a history textbook if it includes loads of illustrations. This is obviously an oversimplification, but it’s true that graphic novels (or rather, graphic narratives) are increasingly being recognized as an effective wayContinueContinue reading “We Hereby Refuse, Abe, Nimura, Ishikawa, Sasaki”