Browsing: Lovers

The ‘Raging Clouds’ cartoonist’s full-color manhwa pairs a merchant’s Westernized daughter with a country boy sent to escort her to the capital, in a ‘will they, won’t they’ romance set against Japan’s occupation; 224-page hardcover is first title from new East Asian comics imprint.

After winning international acclaim with her maiden movie, director Anuparna Roy on the sense of responsibility as she takes ‘Lovers in the Blue Night’ to Busan Film Festival

Chicago’s fall events calendar is overflowing with cultural happenings — including music, theatre, film, visual arts, and everything in between.

At noon on Sunday, the third floor of Yongsan’s I’Park Mall in Seoul offered a compact map of what is famous among young Koreans: Instagram-famous desserts, fashion labels, electronic keyboards, anime and Harry Potter merchandise. In the middle of it all, visitors were quietly leafing through Virginia Woolf, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ernest Hemingway and…

Fantagraphics is kicking off a new imprint called Takumigraphics that focuses on a curated lineup of East Asian comics and graphic novels. The first entry in this new line is Lovers of the Empire, a love story set against the tumultuous backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1920s.

Beat the heat this August by staying inside and streaming these new book adaptations. Or if you prefer an air-conditioned cinema, we’ve got some theatrical releases coming out this month as well. New movies, new TV shows, sequels/second seasons to expand on the bookish worlds we already know and love: here are all the must-watch…

All collectors, pop culture lovers, and fandom enthusiasts had the time of their lives with this event!

For many of those who love monster romance, everything started with Beauty and the Beast, and its tale of a beastly being taking a human girl hostage in his grand manor. Despite everything, you could see he had layers, like an onion. Layers that you wanted to rip apart to see what was inside. And…