My 10 Favorite CMX Titles
CMX may not have had the biggest titles or the biggest sales, but its catalog had a pleasing eclecticism: who…
Tag: Historical Drama
The Times of Botchan, Vols. 1-4
Reading The Times of Botchan reminded me of watching Alexander Sakurov’s cryptic 2002 film Russian Ark. Both employ a similar…
Shirley
At first glance, Shirley looks like a practice run for Emma, a collection of pleasant, straightforward maid stories featuring prototype…
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
In The Idea of History, author R. G. Collingwood argues that nineteenth-century historians viewed their task in a different spirit…
Blood+ Adagio, Vol. 1
Forget what you know about the Russian Revolution. The real cause of the Romanov’s demise wasn’t growing unrest among the…