Reviews

'Hell Screen': The Story of Akutagawa's Century-Old Faust

Very few people who regularly read Japanese literature are unfamiliar with Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The father of the Japanese short story lends his name to Japan’s highest literary honour: the Akutagawa...

'Silence': Neither Sound nor Fury

At the heart of every great Martin Scorsese movie is pride. It is a shared piece of mortality that exists within The Departed’s Frank Costello, within The Wolf of Wall...

Movies

'Silence': Neither Sound nor Fury

At the heart of every great Martin Scorsese movie is pride. It is a shared piece of mortality that exists within The Departed’s Frank Costello, within The Wolf of Wall...

Books

'Hell Screen': The Story of Akutagawa's Century-Old Faust

Very few people who regularly read Japanese literature are unfamiliar with Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The father of the Japanese short story lends his name to Japan’s highest literary honour: the Akutagawa...

Poems

Angkor Wat

Either this was the year in my memory or it was the other one; in any case, the same reflecting-pool was glimmering in the morning with the eyes of lotus...