A collection of autobiographical sketches; a complicated Japanese mystery.

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This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The ...

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From director Ema Ryan Yamazaki comes the documentary The Making of a Japanese. Following the students of an elementary ...

Michelle Zauner is, first and foremost, a writer. While many may know her as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the ...

Instead of spurring political liberalization, China’s integration into the global economy spawned a more repressive state ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

The third season of The Wheel of Time is chugging along over on Prime Video, and we are loving it. There's a lot to like ...

By Michael Church (Reuters) -Iran confirmed their qualification for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday as Mehdi Taremi scored a ...

Iran confirmed their qualification for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday as Mehdi Taremi scored a second-half double to earn his ...

A new book on traditional Iranian music explores the consequences of an oral tradition of music on the concepts of ...