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In the mid-1950s, with Japanese cities still pocked by wartime bombing, Keene published an English-language anthology of Japanese literature that gave the world glimpses of an astoundingly rich literary tradition. An 1899 history of Japanese literature was the only reference available in English at that time. Keene's...
Keene's enchantment with Japanese literature began when he stumbled on Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century classic The Tale of Genji in a Times Square bookshop in 1940. The hero Genji is a sensitive aristocrat who pursues beauty in a world he knows more readily offers sadness. With the news...
Effective liberty, then, depends not on the absolute laws of classical economics—one of the most useful but most overused paradigms of sociopolitical thought—but rather on a pragmatic approach that recognizes the complexity, nuance, and newness of each situation.
Lucasfilm didn't open its office in Singapore just to fulfill the dreams of a few dozen lucky young sci-fi fans. The company's desire to develop these workers into cross-disciplinary, creative thinkers will be crucial to its efforts to turn every Lucasfilm project into a multiplatform, multimedia...
Cassandra's Dream is the name of a long-shot greyhound who wins a race and makes a small fortune for an addicted gambler named Terry (Colin Farrell). It is entirely appropriate for him to give the name to the smart little sailboat he and his brother Ian (Ewan McGregor...