Gekkou means “moonlight” in Japanese (or at least that’s what my JED dictionary tells me on my Android phone). It’s a one-volume light novel (which means it’s a novella aimed…
Book Review
Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Light Novel Review
Picked up this novel because it’s by the same author as All You Need is Kill, a story which does the Return by death mechanic well. The Tom Cruise movie…
Ango Sakaguchi’s Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom (1947)
Ghosts of the Mind in a Folk Story Frame I highly recommend you to read Ango Sakaguchi’s Darakuron (A Thesis/Discourse on Decadence), his most famous essay (or at least my…
A Short Review of “George Orwell: A Life in Review”
George Orwell: A Life in Letters is a 500 page collection of letters by George Orwell. The subjects covered in Orwell’s letters range from the Spanish civil war to his…