If you haven’t explored the chilling body of Japanese horror, here’s a manga artist, Junji Ito, you should look into first. Learn more below. Junji Ito, the renowned Japanese manga artist, has carved his name into the archives of horror as a modern maestro of the macabre. With his extraordinary ability to weave intricate tales…
In this review, the author dives into the series of personal essays in “Just Us: An American Conversation” to better understand the dialogue around the personal and political when it comes to black lives in America. Claudia Rankine is an American poet, essayist and playwright. She has written five collections of poetry and two plays,…
Dive into the debut poetry collection, Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier, and learn how the poet voices the Indigenous People’s struggles against politicians in this review. In a time when much of the world is on fire, what does it mean to resort to poetry? Is it an effective pursuit? Does it exact real change?…
Adapted into a 2021 film starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkummar Rao, Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) is an Indian novel that dives into the truths behind its modernization. “The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.” Winner of the 40th Booker Prize, Indian author Aravind Adiga’s…
This list explores ten bildungsroman novels, each representing unique coming-of-age journeys from different times and places, arranged chronologically according to their year of publication. The coming-of-age tale represents one of the most universally relatable literary genres insofar as it deals with a phenomenon common to almost all of us: the rite of passage from our…
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023, the author delves into Jon Fosse’s ‘Scenes from a Childhood’ in this review. In his 2022 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jon Fosse elaborated on what it means to have a backhand in the praxis of literary pursuit. He confessed to a mystic quality,…