Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema
NOCTURNAL APPARITIONS: ESSENTIAL STORIES
A newly translated assortment of “Essential Stories” by Poland’s Bruno Schulz
THE RED VIRGIN
A surreal take on the story of Hildegart Rodriguez, a young woman who in early Twentieth Century Spain was raised to become a genius by her domineering mother
Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
THE DEVIL’S MOUNTAIN
Mexi-madness featuring the iconic gunslinger EL Payo and lots of assorted weirdness
MR. TURTLE
A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NIGHT
This 1945 novel is considered the masterpiece of the “French Kafka” Marcel Bealu (1908-1993)
DREAMWOOD
The 1972 magnum opus of the late underground film legend James Broughton
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
BEWARE US FLOWERS OF THE ANNIHILATOR
The latest and most comprehensive collection of stories by Canada’s master of elegantly drafted bizarrie Alexander Zelenyj