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Review: A Wild Sheep’s Chase By Murakami Haruki, Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum
The Japanese A Wild Sheep’s Chase, published in 1982, is the third novel by a young man who had already written two short, strange books and was not sure yet what kind of writer he was going to be. You can feel him deciding inside the sentences. The famous Murakami voice, the cool, slightly bemused first-person, the lists of records and brand names, the…
Nolan’s Odyssey Tracking Shows Interest Dropping In Chirsopher Nolan's Modern Film
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens July 17. It carries a $250 million production budget and was positioned as one of the two centerpiece theatrical events of summer 2026 alongside Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Three weeks before its first trailer dropped, industry forecasters were projecting anywhere from $700 million to $1.5 billion worldwide. …
Amazon Is Spending $340 Million on Rings of Power Season 4 Nobody Asked For
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed this week that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 4 is moving into pre-production this fall, with cameras expected to roll in early 2027. Season 3 premieres November 11, 2026 on Prime Video. The formal Season 4 greenlight has not been issued, but the production timeline is underway regardless. Amazon is bui…
Dragon Quest XII Finally Gets An Update
Dragon Quest is one of the longest-running Japanese RPG series in gaming and has announced the twelfth mainline installment in the series: Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams. Produced by Square Enix of Japan (Also the creators of the equally long-running Final Fantasy series), this announcement was not without some hiccups as outlined in the announcement t…
The Slow Unraveling of Science Fiction’s Legacy Magazines
Asimov’s Science Fiction has not shipped its March/April 2026 issue yet. The issue is in blue line approval as of this writing, which means it is almost printed but not in subscribers’ hands. The magazine’s cover date will be replaced with a volume and issue number when it does ship, because if the month appeared on the cover, Barnes and Noble would ref…
Strange New Worlds Has a Kirk Problem, And Kurtzman Admitted It
When Paramount+ announced Star Trek: Strange New Worlds back in 2021, the pitch was simple. We were finally going to spend serious time with Captain Christopher Pike, Number One, and a young Lieutenant Spock aboard the Enterprise in the years before James T. Kirk took the chair. Five years before
Dark Horse Workers Unionize: The Letter That Tells You Everything About What Embracer Did to This Company
Dark Horse Media staff announced today the formation of Dark Horse Workers United, affiliated with Communications Workers of America Local 7901. Fifty-nine eligible employees signed a letter sent to interim CEO Jay Komas requesting voluntary union recognition by June 3, 2026. If Komas does not voluntarily recognize the union, Dark Horse Workers United w…
007 First Light: When 88 Metacritic Isn't Enough
Critical praise doesn’t guarantee commercial success.
Reclaiming The Shire Part 9: The Tolkien Estate and the Amazon Problem
We started a retrospective on Tolkien’s rise to superstardom, which began with a left-wing movement in the 1970s appropriating his work, and has slowly migrated over time to people realizing how right-wing and Christian Lord of the Rings is. Now, we continue.