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...Translated into English by Vertical Inc. as an eight-volume series of stylish, $25 hardcovers, the third installment was released this month. Though Tezuka's characters are cartoonishly cute and he frequently inserts goofy humor, the series also explores adult themes of romance and violence. Literati and pop-culture mavens alike will enjoy this manga masterwork...
Thus what seems like nothing more than a funny and innocently nostalgic tale of a family meal gone wrong has provoked a cultural inspection that brings to the table celebrities and their publishers, other children’s writers, pop cultural critics, parents and children alike...
...consider Yakov and the Seven Thieves, penned by none other than the queen of pop and mother of two, Madonna. After she secured a deal to publish six children’s stories in 100 countries and 42 languages last summer, the New York Daily News sarcastically told its readers to “forget that her last book was an outrageous and provocative collection of thoughts and semi-porn shots called sex.” With her first children’s book, The English Roses, Madonna was said to “go between the covers again, only...
After an original album like From the Wood, Save Me risks sounding overly-produced. Maybe mainstream pop is the sound he’s going for. He is easily as talented as John Mayer, but has received probably less than one-tenth the recognition. But after hearing the album’s first track, I wanted someone to save me from listening to the record label’s popified Pat McGee, no longer the soulful songwriter from Virginia with a knack for writing a love song. Thankfully, the album gets better as McGee’s original sound comes...
...some point, any sense of authenticity got lost in a barrage of poorly conceived and flawlessly executed hooks. Admittedly, that’s just pop music at its least inspired—but when people still champion real bands for “saying something,” not realizing it’s the hooks that lull them into complacency, what are they really talking about? The implication is that there’s something more being communicated, some intangible fundamental human truth that transcends mere music-making and automatically stamps a singer/songwriter’s work...