Back to Japan, this time with schoolgirls, warships, and an ecological disaster for company. High School Fleet turns out to have rather more to say about gender and maritime authority than its waters initially suggest.
In Paris, looking for Nena Saguil in the archives — and, rather more often, not finding her. Sometimes what art history forgets is almost as interesting as what it remembers.
In Paris, discussing how Pinocchio grows up in the twenty-first century. Because nothing says ‘growing up’ like systemic burnout and a steampunk dystopia.
In Cambridge, talking about Cambodia, libraries, and the awkward fact that destroying a collection is not the only way to destroy a library. Catalogues and librarians, inconveniently, matter too.