Start from a world,
not a title.

Memory, time, and the social world of Belle Époque France across seven volumes.

News of the World is a 1977 album associated with Queen and EMI Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

In This Corner of the World is a 2016 anime title tied to Sunao Katabuchi and Kotringo and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.

In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...