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,”…
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Cat-Eyed Boy, Vols. 1-2
Kazuo Umezu’s writing defies easy categorization. His horror stories unfold in an almost haphazard fashion, seldom offering Western readers the…
Harmony
VIZ launched its Haikasoru imprint in 2009, with the goal of bringing Japan’s best speculative fiction to the US. Haikasoru’s…
Gente and House of Five Leaves
I find Natsume Ono’s work rewarding and maddening in equal measure. On the plus side, I love her idiosyncratic style;…
Manga Artifacts: Lycanthrope Leo
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before publishers realized that they could sell manga to teenagers through Borders and Books-A-Million,…