The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:13:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /arts-entertainment/why-novelist-taylor-jenkins-reid-is-special/ /arts-entertainment/why-novelist-taylor-jenkins-reid-is-special/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:13:40 +0000 /?p=4152 Reading Time: 4 minutes On March 3rd, the Prime Video TV series Daisy Jones and the Six will come out, starring Riley Keough, Sam Claflin (Hunger Games), and Camila Morrone. This TV series has garnered much attention and was even featured in the New York Times. In further evidence of its popularity, Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, will...]]> /arts-entertainment/why-novelist-taylor-jenkins-reid-is-special/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/an-inspirational-blue-giant/ /arts-entertainment/an-inspirational-blue-giant/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:58:28 +0000 /?p=4141 Reading Time: 3 minutes A high school student who can’t read music, yet truly believes he will become the best jazz musician in the world? It sounds delusional and foolish. But the student’s journey—one in which he maintains his forthright nature, his ambition, and his constant enthusiasm despite setbacks and criticism—makes for a story that leaves readers with a...]]> /arts-entertainment/an-inspirational-blue-giant/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/onion-skin-and-growing-pains-exploring-darumas-51st-issue/ /arts-entertainment/onion-skin-and-growing-pains-exploring-darumas-51st-issue/#respond Mon, 14 Nov 2022 01:04:30 +0000 /?p=3964 Reading Time: < 1 minute ]]> /arts-entertainment/onion-skin-and-growing-pains-exploring-darumas-51st-issue/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/why-machiavelli-matters/ /arts-entertainment/why-machiavelli-matters/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:42:14 +0000 /?p=3292 Reading Time: 3 minutes From Plato’s doctrine of the soul to Marx’s line of economic thought, the history of political philosophy is saturated with theories and manifestos that have shaped the political sphere as we know it. Inevitably, a divide between classical and modern thought has emerged, separating Renaissance attitudes from contemporary ones and effectively distancing the ancient from...]]> /arts-entertainment/why-machiavelli-matters/feed/ 1 /arts-entertainment/astronauts-delight-a-review-of-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir/ /arts-entertainment/astronauts-delight-a-review-of-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:35:16 +0000 /?p=3110 Reading Time: 3 minutes In his third novel, Andy Weir tackles deep space. Project Hail Mary, published in May of this year, follows Ryland Grace, a molecular biologist turned middle school teacher who is sent on a suicide mission to save humanity from certain destruction.  The book starts with (Dr.) Grace awakening alone on a spaceship, far from Earth....]]> /arts-entertainment/astronauts-delight-a-review-of-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/fran-lebowitz-living-with-pessimism/ /arts-entertainment/fran-lebowitz-living-with-pessimism/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2021 02:53:30 +0000 /?p=2905 Reading Time: 3 minutes Cigarette in hand, buttoned-up navy blazer, teashades pushed way up on the bridge of her nose, with no phone at her side, Fran Lebowitz is a picture of New York literati. To describe Lebowitz is to pinpoint the essence of New York, its history and character. Lebowitz is full of stories, sneering comments, and pessimistic...]]> /arts-entertainment/fran-lebowitz-living-with-pessimism/feed/ 2 /arts-entertainment/louise-gluck-and-the-nobel-prize/ /arts-entertainment/louise-gluck-and-the-nobel-prize/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:59:17 +0000 /?p=2816 Reading Time: 3 minutes There are those few people in this world who can articulate emotions and a situation so well it’s frightening. Louise Glück—whose name rhymes with “click” and not “cluck”—is one of those people. Glück is a recipient of many awards for her profound poetry, such as the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes, the MIT Anniversary Medal, the...]]> /arts-entertainment/louise-gluck-and-the-nobel-prize/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/a-tokyo-bathed-in-two-moons-and-other-strange-sights-murakamis-1q84-2/ /arts-entertainment/a-tokyo-bathed-in-two-moons-and-other-strange-sights-murakamis-1q84-2/#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2020 01:55:03 +0000 /?p=2700 Reading Time: 2 minutes 1Q84, author Haruki Murakami’s hefty dystopian novel, has gained international prominence since its publication in 2009. The novel sold thousands of copies during its first week and was voted the best-published book of the Heisei Era (1989-2018) by the Asahi Shimbun. As a Japanese person myself, it is beyond exciting to see the international dialogue...]]> /arts-entertainment/a-tokyo-bathed-in-two-moons-and-other-strange-sights-murakamis-1q84-2/feed/ 0