Recently, I’ve been thinking about the idea of pilgrimage, as a journey which is undertaken not simply in pursuit of a destination, but in search
On Bauhaus, the Squirtle Squad and the Gothmother of Black: How Japanese Culture Shapes Your Life
Like many people born in 1991, I first became aware of Japan when someone handed me a Vulpix trading card. Back then, I didn’t know
Bossed in Translation
Iridescent and beautiful, with an eye for the smallest detail, Your Name is justifiably the best-known anime movie of the decade1. It takes place in
Betweenland
I don’t live in the present. Merely between the past, a shadowbird With its talons in my back and muffled caws of summer, Tugging at
Mea Culpa.
At present, I work nights, in an attempt to recoup my financial losses quickly. Stacking shelves doesn’t absorb much mental power, so at night I
Good Morning, Verulamium (Here and There)
It was a slow burner, that realization of change. A friend of a friend told me that it took her five months to readjust to
