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The Winter 2016 anime season begins tomorrow, so it’s high time for me to release this post, eh? I’m still not back to two weeks prior to the season’s release, but at least we got back to getting this out before the season. Hurray to small successes...

THE OCTOBER 20, 2003 ISSUE of The New Yorker features essays and articles about Hollywood. Its cover depicts a film crew shooting an actress behind the wheel of a stationary convertible, her hair tousled by a large fan standing just off-camera. On a...

As we close 2014, it’s heartening to see that the new year will be filled with novels featuring diverse teens, including Cindy Rodriguez’s When Reason Breaks, Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified, and Stacy Lee’s Under a Painted Sky. Magical realism...

By Christopher Sharrett. The label “master of violence” was long ago affixed to director Sam Peckinpah. Books on Peckinpah with titles like “Bloody Sam,” and studies comparing the director’s films to Kubrick’s icy-cold vision in A Clockwork Orange,...

Hawa Allan Bulwarks against the tidal wave of horror . . . #SelfCare Poem: “In Service of Staying Alive“, by Lynne Procop. Novel: That would be Deep Singh Blue, by Ranbir Singh Sidhu — a coming-of-age novel about a Sikh-American teen growing up in...