Over the past decade, literary translation has moved from a quiet sideline of English-language publishing toward something closer to the centre of cultural…
Reviews
Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke is often introduced as an ecological fantasy, and that description is accurate without being sufficient. Its forests, gods,…
In 2006, a twenty-four-year-old harpist from California released an album that divided the listening public. Some called it pretentious, others a masterpiece,…
Robert Eggers’s The Witch is a horror film built from hesitation. Its most frightening moments do not arrive as sudden shocks, but as gradual changes in the…
Poland’s post-war cinema became one of the country’s most powerful public spaces for thinking about history. In films by Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy…
David Lynch’s cinema often feels like a half-remembered dream that has been left out in the rain. A suburban street becomes threatening, a lampshade seems to…
The final level of Outer Wilds is strange because it barely behaves like a level at all. There is no conventional arena, no boss with a readable pattern, and…
Dorota Masłowska’s writing emerges from a Poland transformed by capitalism, mass media and restless urban aspiration. Her characters speak in slang,…
Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa is a war film built around an almost impossible contradiction: survival demands a young Jewish boy conceal the identity that…
The visual novel is often placed in an awkward category: too text-heavy to feel like a conventional game, too interactive to fit comfortably beside the novel.…