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Simon Reynolds: Retromania   (Faber and Faber, 2011)   Note that page numbers given in the text refer to the 2012 edition of Retromania .  P...

Ayano Tsukimi with some of her creations Nagoro, Japan (aka the Village of the Dolls)     The Japanese city of Nara might be the city of the...

Is there an important difference within Japanese language and culture between moe and kawaii ? Does the former, for example, serve...

Cover of the Faber and Faber English  paperback edition (2004) In some ways, Amélie Nothomb's Stupeur et tremblements (1999),...

Despite what I wrote in a recent post ( Delphinophilia ), some people neither wish to swim with dolphins, nor have sex with them. Rat...

Whatever the problematic sexual politics of such places, there was something undeniably charming about the Japanese coffee shops kn...