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Fantastic Love in The World of Makoto Shinkai

March 10, 2015

Although Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has long been representative of the quality of the Japanese animation film industry, a rising star has been making waves…
Infinity, Ineffability, and Loss in Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Aleph”

January 13, 2015

First published in 1945, “The Aleph” became one of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’s most beloved stories. Like many of Borges’s works, “The Aleph” is…