Kazuo Umezu – Fourteen (Manga)
In the year 2200, a mysterious and highly intelligent chicken named George teaches humanity a lesson about its own frailty and its impending demise.
Category: book reviews
Kyoichi Katayama – Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World
Socrates in Love is about the tragic young love of Sakutaro and Aki, and it was, apparently, very well-received by the public in Japan because of its theme.
Lisa McMann – Dead to You
Dead to You is most definitely a different young adult book, touching on topics of kidnapping and coping with tragedies not everyone is able to grasp.
Lou Beach – 420 Characters: Stories
Lou Beach’s short story collection uses status updates as a vehicle for microfiction.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya – There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Once you finish Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, you’ll realize why the subtitle is “Scary fairy tales,” and not “From Russia with love.”
Manuel Muñoz – What You See in the Dark
Passions and murder in a town where Hitchcock plans to shoot scenes for Psycho.
Max Brooks – World War Z
World War Z is my favorite piece of zombie literature. Let me tell you why.
Michael Chabon – Telegraph Avenue
It’s 2004 in the Temescal district, and a local celebrity has decided that he’ll “return to his roots” by opening another branch of his mega chain entertainment store in the neighborhood. Should Nat and Archy fight the power? Who will help them?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff – Accidentally In Love With…A God?
Emma is your ordinary city girl… except for the god named Guy who talks to her in her head. When he tells her to go to the jungle to release him, she gets more than what she bargained for.
Natsuo Kirino – Grotesque
Grotesque is billed as a murder mystery, but it’s less of a whodunit than a probing inquiry into the ills of society.
