Tragedy and irony can be fickle playmates. Consider for example Philip K. Dick's struggle to be accepted as a mainstream author, to have his work appreciated and understood outside the genre of science fiction, which was a dilemma he considered “a very long-term tragedy - of my creative life.”

Now consider the fact that the prestigious publisher Library of America has just published a third volume of novels by Dick.

In the beginning, before the Big Bang, all the matter in the universe was concentrated in a single point. Qfwfq can tell you about it: He was there. “Naturally, we were all there—where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time, either: What use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?”

Qfwfq has been a mammoth, a dinosaur, and a single cell.

Jealousy has a range of settings. At boil, it's the green-eyed monster that destroys love affairs. At simmer, it's a twinge in the gut when we're confronted with something we covet. In third grade, it was the Cabbage Patch doll. In ninth grade, perfectly matched outfits from the Gap. In college, the Velvet Underground box set. In adulthood? A Craftsman in Silver Lake would be just fantastic, thank you.

Call it the changing of seasons or a trick of time zones, but for English speakers, the slowly cooling summer of Japanese manga may yet be the spring of Korean manhwa. These comics have been on North American bookstore shelves almost as long as their Japanese counterparts have, though they’ve received less attention from the reading public, and few scholars have ventured to explore the distinctions between the two approaches. Often, titles and series seem selected for publication on the basis of how closely they emulate the look and feel of popular Japanese comics, so manhwa shoulders the burden

Revisionist history is often a bitter pill to swallow, especially when the consensus has permeated the very language of the debate. In the early 1950s, one crucial issue divided American public opinion, and continued to do so for decades. The question centred on the nature of Soviet communism, and the internal threat posed by American agents working for the KGB in the United States. Was the 'Konspiratsia' real, or were the accusers simply political fantasists seeking 'Reds under the beds'? The answer lies within the pages of John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr's remarkable book.