book reviews/420 Characters: Stories
posted Monday, April 30th, 2012
by Diandra Rodriguez | Comments (0)

Lou Beach’s short story collection uses status updates as a vehicle for microfiction.

book reviews/50 Greatest Cartoons, The
posted Monday, July 4th, 2011
by Diandra Rodriguez | Comments (0)

Essential reading for fans of North American animation. This is an excellent guide for anyone who enjoys animation, from casual fans to industry experts.

book reviews/Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
posted Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
by Diandra Rodriguez | Comments (3)

Lincoln’s secret lifelong quest to free the United States from the vampire menace.

book reviews/After Dark
posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
by Stephanie Chan | Comments (8)

In After Dark, Murakami masterfully concocts a tale of everyday minutiae with a healthy splash of fantastical suspense, topped off with a twist of hard-boiled crime, and garnished with some supernatural angst – shaken, not stirred.

book reviews/Aloft
posted Thursday, February 16th, 2012
by Stephanie Chan | Comments (2)

Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.

book reviews/Amants Papillon, Les
posted Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
by amy | Comments (0)

Les Amants Papillons is an illustrated book loosely based on the famous Chinese (tragic) legend about two lovers that can’t be together.

book reviews/AO AKUA
posted Friday, April 10th, 2009
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AO AKUA is Japanese actress Juri Ueno’s follow-up to A Piacere. This time around, Juri travels to Maui on an energetic/cleansing trip experience. Accompanying her and in charge of the photos is Yuichiro Kobayashi.

book reviews/Army of Phantoms, An
posted Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
by Diandra Rodriguez | Comments (0)

An Army of Phantoms is an admirably researched, if somewhat rushed, tour of Hollywood history from the end of World War II through 1956.

book reviews/Auspicious Troubles of Chance, The
posted Thursday, June 28th, 2012
by Camiele | Comments (0)

Charlie Cochet’s debut The Auspicious Troubles of Chance teaches the reader something about the unshakable grandeur of true love.

book reviews/Batman: Knight of Vengeance
posted Sunday, September 4th, 2011
by Giacomo Lee | Comments (3)

What if little Bruce Wayne was the one to be killed by Joe Chill, and his father Thomas went on to be Batman? Knight of Vengeance answers that question with a story set in an alternate version of the DC universe.