Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
At some point in your travels through high school English, a teacher probably made you read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,”…
Books
The Art of Osamu Tezuka
In the introduction to The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, author Helen McCarthy argues that Tezuka’s work merits…
Harmony
VIZ launched its Haikasoru imprint in 2009, with the goal of bringing Japan’s best speculative fiction to the US. Haikasoru’s…
The Cat in the Coffin
The year is 1955. Twenty-year-old Masayo, an aspiring painter from Hakodate, apprentices herself to Goro Kawabuko, a handsome widower who…