Pussy Riot and Russian “Art Protest”
In April a shitty punk band with the excellent name of Pussy Riot attained worldwide fame by performing their less than awesome track “Holy Shit” inside Moscow’s Church of Ch
Russian Author Dmitri Kosyrev, aka Master Chen, on His Asian Alter-ego
MOSCOW: Russia’s Dmitri Kosyrev is a journalist and has written primarily about Asia for such publications as Pravda, Independent Newspaper, and New Newspaper. He also occasional
Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive
Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of
The Incal
There comes a point in every individual’s lifetime when he or she must face the inevitable question: should I read a 307 page mystical- psychedelic Chilean-French science fiction
Review: Whispers in the Walls and Pandemonium
My interest in comics ebbs and flows. So much that is published is embarrassingly bad, but I still love the medium, and so I want there to be books that are good. English language
The Post-Moebius Upholders of a Proud French Comic Book Tradition
In March, Jean “Moebius” Giraud died. This was a sad day for comic readers as Giraud was probably the finest artist ever to work in the medium. He could draw
China City Stories: an interview with Ra Page
Despite its rise China remains an enigma for many in the West. As fiction can provide a way to get under a culture’s skin—the short story doing so in immediate and concentrated
Meet The Toughest Clerics Who Ever Lived
Daniel Kalder says that St Ignatius set a high standard when a cannonball tore open his leg Early Christian practice emphasised asceticism and poverty, but the idea of radical wi
When Writers Censor Themselves
The suppression of literature is an ancient tradition that probably started with the invention of writing and which thrives today all over the world. In the west we generally vener
PP Appreciation: Ex-Marvel Man, Pariah, Blogger Jim Shooter
Is the best blog in publishing written by a 60 year-old former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics? I think so. Though he may not be a household name, in the world of comics Jim Shoot