Author: mschleh

Hockey Shit With Ngozi Ukazu: Why You Should Be Reading Check, Please!

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Reason #17 to hate Jack: He woke me up. At 4 AM. To skate at Faber. On a Sunday. Because Jack Zimmerman works harder than God. Despite never having been a “sports” person, I’ve always been inexplicably attracted to certain kinds of sports narratives. One of my favorite books, Winger, is about rugby players. I’m […]

The Corpse at the Root of the Cherry Tree: Horror and Glamour in Tokyo Babylon

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Tokyo. The capital city of Japan. In 1991, its population numbered 11,923,346. Between day and evening, it differed by two million souls. The unparalleled city of night. Even in a world where magic and spirits are real, evil most often takes human form. Tokyo Babylon is the story of Subaru Sumeragi, a sixteen-year-old onmyouji (a […]