Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories By Shūsaku Endō (tr. Van Gessel) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025, 224 pages, $18) A rocky, precipitous islet called Takahoko once sat in the mouth of Nagasaki Bay, before modern land…
Last week, President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of surrender to end World War II in Europe, as “Victory Day.” He further declared that the U.S. “did more than…
With all the banter regarding tariffs on imports and while many sports aficionados were consumed with filling out their NCAA basketball tournament bracket, the Major League Baseball (MLB) season’s annual road show got underway in Tokyo, Japan. Provided you forgot,…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been reason to fear The vengeful rage of angry ghosts. …
Rarely has a politician so completely destroyed his career in so little time. In the space of about six hours, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared and then abandoned martial law. In a country with a long heritage of…
I Bird droppings have never had particularly good press, ever since poor Tobit of the tribe of Nephtali, worn out after a long day of grave-digging, nodded off and “as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow’s nest…
If you have had even the slightest exposure to baseball news this month, then you undoubtedly have heard about the otherworldly exploits of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter, Shohei Ohtani. If he wasn’t the biggest star in Major League…
What good are “good union jobs” if there aren’t any jobs? Steelworkers contesting the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel of Japan might ask themselves that question since opposing the deal will mean just that. (READ MORE: Get Lost, Kid) Nippon Steel…
While the White House claims it is committed to strengthening American jobs and manufacturing through foreign investment and shifting supply chains to allies, its actions tell a different story. It’s a story where the political demands of reelection reign supreme,…
