Penguin – The Manga Critic

The Emperor and I

Posted on May 10, 2017

The Emperor and I reads like a Sunday comic strip: it has a faintly absurd premise that’s easy to grasp, a…

Posted on October 6, 2011

British historian Phillip Guedalla famously described biography as “a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the…

Posted on October 7, 2010

Reading The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, I was irresistibly reminded of a quip attributed to Thomas Carlyle:…