The Name of the Flower, Vols. 1-4
Given the sheer number of nineteenth-century Brit-lit tropes that appear in The Name of the Flower — neglected gardens, orphans…
Reviews
My Favorite Shojo Manga: Kaze Hikaru
In Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, author Paul Gravett argues that female mangaka from Riyoko Ikeda to CLAMP have…
The Best Manga You’re Not Reading
On Saturday, June 26th, Brigid Alverson, Robin Brenner, Martha Cornog, and I gave a presentation at the American Library Association’s…
Manga Artifacts: Pineapple Army
About two years ago, I reached a tipping point in my manga consumption: I’d read enough just enough stories about…
Solanin
The characters in Solanin are suffering from what I call a “pre-life crisis”—that moment in your twenties when you realize…