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Curating a digital archive of book/manga/magazine covers.

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Brutus, 美しい国？今、世界中が熱中するのはクールな日本です！ (A beautiful country? Right now, the whole world is captivated by cool Japan!), No. 608 (Magazine House / December 2006)

Katsuhiro Otomo BOOK included!

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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint by Oscar Wilde (Penguin Archive) (Penguin Classics / April 2025)

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The Paris Review No. 245, Fall 2023 (Paris Review Foundation / 2023)

GLÜCK As to the Freudian narrative—that my childhood determines who I am going to be—it’s probably the most fatalistic vision of the self ever proposed. The medieval idea that your life’s meaning is refracted backward from your death is much better. At least the defining moment is in front of you. Robert Glück on the Art of Fiction

NOTTAGE At Yale, we were reading the plays that were deemed important by the academy, a long and homogenous list shaped by white men—plays by “angry men” like Harold Pinter and John Osborne. I remember the excitement I felt when I learned that Ntozake Shange was coming to talk to our class. She was this glorious beacon—for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf had placed our stories center stage in a way I had never seen before. Lynn Nottage on the Art of Theater

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Bookforum, Volume 31, Issue 4, SPRING 2025 (1865 Publications / 2025)

On the cover: Peter Hujar, Self-Portrait Jumping (I), 1974.

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The Power of Words by Simone Weil (Penguin Great Ideas) (Penguin Classics / September 2020)

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群像 CINEMA (Gunzō CINEMA), January 2026 Special Supplement (Kodansha / December 2025)

Cinema × Literary Magazine: reading cinema.

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いくつもの週末 (We Usually Weekend Together) by Kaori Ekuni (Shueisha (Shueisha Bunko) / May 2001)

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Clara Istlerová: A Life Among Letters edited by Anezka Minaríková (Inventory Press / August 2025)

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目を閉じて抱いて, Vol. 1 (Close Your Eyes and Hold Me) by Shungicu Uchida (Shodensha, FEEL COMICS / September 1994)

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Brutus, やっぱりマンガが好きで好きで好きでたまらない (After all, I just can’t stop loving manga), No. 937 (Magazine House / May 2021)

325 works across genres, introduced by trusted manga enthusiasts. Includes a special supplement featuring Keigo Shinzo (Hirayasumi) × Tsuchika Nishimura (The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store) on what they want to express through manga today.

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Why I Make Documentaries (Second Edition) by Soda Kazuhiro (Viaindustriae Editions / 2025)

“Watching great films from around the world has allowed me to feel a candid connection to people from every corner of the globe. Each time, I think to myself, "No matter where we live, we're all the same human beings." I bet you've felt the same thing while watching films from Japan or other foreign countries. Films have that power. I believe in that power.”

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棒がいっぽん (Bō ga Ippon) by Fumiko Takano (Magazine House / 1995)

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Archivio No. 10: The Design Issue (Promemoria Group / 2024)

“An object is never just an object.”

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演出をさがして 映画の勉強会 (In Search of Mise-en-Scène: Conversations from a Film Study Group) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sho Miyake & Tetsuya Miura (フィルムアート社 / December 2025)

In a study group of three, directors Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) and Sho Miyake (Small, Slow But Steady), together with film scholar Tetsuya Miura, explore cinematic direction.

Main works discussed: Robert Bresson: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, The Trial of Joan of Arc, A Gentle Woman, L’Argent Víctor Erice: The Quince Tree Sun, El Sur, The Spirit of the Beehive Tony Scott: The Hunger, The Fan, Enemy of the State, Déjà Vu, Unstoppable Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Millennium Mambo, Three Times, A Time to Live, a Time to Die, A City of Sadness

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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara (Pantheon Books / April 2025)

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Spike Art Magazine 75: The Museum Issue (Spike Studios eU / Spring 2023)

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T: The New York Times Style Magazine — The Greats, “Jonathan!” (The New York Times Company / October 2024)