Tsukumojuuku by Outarou Maijou succeeds in crafting something that seems authentically confessional out of deconstruction and metatext.

A guest post? A review of an entire short story anthology? Now, this is something entirely different from usual…

It is true that Godzilla and nuclear disaster are deeply linked. But, simply applying the formula that Godzilla=nuclear weapons would pervert our thinking greatly.

To be direct about it, Our Broken World (Sekai vol. 1) is my favourite novel ever written. Here is a review.

To cut right to the chase, Glass Onion is less original than Knives Out. However, it finds some stable qualities that allow it to stand up to its predecessor.

No matter where one looks in Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi), there is no escaping the pervasive importance of its landscapes.

Exploring the limits of authorial intent in video games through The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide.

The discussion of the dichotomy between “art” and “entertainment” dates back centuries. Regardless of what one thinks of the artistic value of Marvel’s films, it bares re-examining the question of what separates “art” from “mere entertainment” in the current age.

Nabokov’s Despair takes the form of a mystery novel, inverts it, and stuffs its insides with the aesthetics and logic of artistic, modernist fiction. In this sense, it might well be the first true “anti-mystery”.

Metafiction attempts to erase the existence of its author, the authority of its fictional world, who is even analogous to God. What about Umineko?