June 14, 2016
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die -Matsuo Bashō After years of self-imposed isolation, literally having never...
Opinion
July 28, 2015
“Welcome to the dystopian world of corporate education, in which learning how to think, appropriate public values, and become an engaged...
blog
July 31, 2014
Comics are bigger than ever, both in our mainstream pop culture and in the world of literature, literary criticism and academia. As someone...
Reviews
May 19, 2014
The Wind Rises is the latest animated film by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the 73-year-old creator of such classic works as...
Reviews
February 4, 2014
In his debut collection of poems Topaz , Brian Komei Dempster writes: “I feel war’s incision.” These poems cut open the past line by line,...