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My interest in Japan is twofold: On the one hand, I’m curious about Japanese surf culture, how a sport that’s fundamentally individualistic and renegade fits into a society built on the group, obedience, playing by the rules. On the other, I’m trying...

This post is part of our International Women’s Day celebration. See all the posts here. I love Kelly Jensen’s wonderful feminist anthology, Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. If you haven’t read it yet, get it now! In her introduction, Jensen...

More than 70 countries have announced entries in the Academy’s foreign-language race, with the total number of submissions likely to equal or surpass last year’s 80 or eve n 2014’s record of 83 contenders. Germany’s “Toni Erdmann,” Iran’s “The Salesman...

And we begin with the cop, via Sky News: Ferguson Officer Quit Because Of ‘Threats’ The police chief complains of “egregious” threats, as the mayor says Darren Wilson will receive no severance payment package. The white officer who shot dead black...

First Strike (Dewey Andreas) by Ben Coes A top-secret black ops program operates from deep within the Pentagon. The objective: to stop devastating terrorist acts. The means: secretly enabling a hand-picked man, the charismatic Tristan Nazir, to emerge...