Both are primarily industrial histories, about animation as a practical process that evolves with media platforms and corporate opportunities. That’s not to overlook the creators, the people who love animation for its own sake, but those people are constrained by what’s possible as a given ...
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, many people around the world have become more familiar with the country's recent history, but many of us still don't know much about its literary traditions. Academic and activist Sasha Dovzhyk introduces five works of Ukrainian literatu...
MORE: Classic audiobooks the whole family will love Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maude Montgomery (1923) Find it: Bookshop | Amazon This is the first in a trilogy about the sensitive Emily, an orphan who now lives with her less-than-sensitive relatives. She grows to love her new home, ...
Like many artist’s books,S; Ship of Theseushas layers of self-referentiality “interrogating” the nature of the Book. Like many artist’s books, it challenges the act of reading — in this case with narrative frames, parallel color-coded narratives and objects of evidence each related to d...
A folding object with secret compartments, ca. Meiji period (1870-1910s?) Untitled painting of a monkey A simple and clever painting on silk, ca. Taishō to early Shōwa period (1920-40s)? Untitled surimono A spring-themed surimono by an unidentified artist, ca. Meiji period (1870-1900s...
talks about the enclosed Six-Page Manuscript - Ballad [The letter and Poem was not conclusively but very likely addressed by Viereck to Frederick Franklin Schrader, then editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror and shortly thereafter co-founder with George Sylvester Viereck of "The Fatherland" / ...
Lessons in Happiness. The Story of Zhan Ni and Yunqi, tr. Helen Wang (Cedic International Inc., 2023) // 幸福课 Aroma’s Little Garden, tr. Tony Blishen (Shanghai Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1602202573 // 小香草 As if … as if …, illus. Liu Xun, tr. unnamed (Starfish Bay Children’...
Edward Picot School age Dora complains about her dad all the time, but when the pressure is on she sticks up for him no matter what. And the puzzle box? -- that makes it a bit more interesting. http://edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/THE PUZZLE BOX ...
On the plus side, a good friend from my working days will be in town this weekend, and I am really looking forward to catching-up over dinner. When I wrote about my summer reading here, I totally blew past one of the best reads of the season: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s An Unfinished...
she completed a half-formednovelabout an affair between a married advertising executive and an aspiring actress. The resulting romp,The World Is Full of Married Men(1968; film 1979), became a succès de scandale as a result of its frank depictions of extramarital sex. It was banned in Austr...