or my sanity’s slipping––I have a bad feeling both are true

Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909

Mother Sarita

this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country

Plus: an extensive and gorgeous Alex Ross art gallery

The Way of the Samurai Hafsah Faizal or my sanity’s slipping––I haveA luxurious hardback edition of the classic work The Way of the Samurai, presented with beautiful gold embossing and gilded page edges. To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks, long blades and elaborate armor. However, this classic text by Inazo Nitobe reveals the greater depths to samurai culture they were not simply warriors but an aristocratic class who practiced literary and military arts in equal measure. Essential to