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The little-known painter who found beauty in bugs, transforming pests into wondrous creatures and works of art ...

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The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives ...

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is a novelist and literary translator based near Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of The Jubilee Cycle, a science-fiction trilogy set in a dystopian future Tokyo, and the translator of A Man (2020), a ...

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