Casey Brienza
@CaseyBrienza
Sociologist. PhD, Cambridge. Author of 'Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics' (Bloomsbury).
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This book review written by John A. Lent (formerly of Temple University), world-renowned comics scholar, was among the most glowing 'Manga in America' ever received.
This holiday gift-giving guide recommends my book, 'Manga in America.' Wild. alibaba.com/product-insigh…
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #Bestof2025 Gripping and fantastically written story of what happens when ordinarily venal people are given extraordinary power.
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong #Bestof2025 A quirky yet exquisitely readable story that makes “the other” emphatically one of us.
Inequalities of Platform Publishing by Claire Parnell #Bestof2025 If the findings at times seemed predetermined, well, the story Parnell tells is no less urgent.
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan #Bestof2025 Critics who say it's his best book in years aren't lying. Gorgeous, layered, reminiscent of the best parts of Atonement.
No More Tears by Gardiner Harris #Bestof2025 Cautionary tale of what happens when the state fails to regulate capitalist greed in lifesaving industries. Feels personal to someone living in New Jersey.
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett #Bestof2025 Second installment of a murder mystery series in a fabulously built fantasy world. Oddly appropriate callbacks to Star Wars.
And in humorous animal pest-related news: nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/…
Twenty+ years and half a lifetime ago, I was all alone in my adoration of the Berserk manga by Kentaro Miura. Now they stock the omnibus edition in the nearest Walmart. And if it doesn't seem that surprising, it just goes to show how much US cultural expectations have shifted.
OMG, what amazing research! The mold growing on their cheeses spontaneously mutated from a wild-type green to white. Why? For the same reason cave-dwelling animals lose their pigmentation: You don't need sunblock when you live exclusively in the dark. cell.com/current-biolog…
cell.com
Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal...
Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation...
So happy to have found this! A list of all of my academic book reviews for CHOICE to date: go.gale.com/ps/advancedSea…
As of this month, the Trump administration's policies have officially started making me poorer.
this book was published 10 years ago and I haven't read much of it still, but really cool there's a book that goes into the history of manga publishing in the US...! I wonder how much has changed since then but def excited to read more of it
Desiccated corpse of bat discovered in attic. Poor little thing had gotten trapped inside and curled up on an old throw pillow to die. This feels like an unwelcome metaphor for pretty much everything at this point.
Birdsong and the vapid music of ice cream truck. They take the tree on Thursday, the second living thing that will have died on our watch so far this year.
2025: The year the US will take away healthcare from poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people. politico.com/news/2025/01/1…
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