Kyoto Animation Announces "Hyouka" TV Anime

The 2001 novel, pictured below, is the first in the koten-bu series, and won an honorable mention in the Kadokawa campus novel contest, mystery horror genre. It centers on Houtarou Oreki, a high schooler who is resistant to getting involved with anything. This changes when he joins the koten-bu club, and is tasked with solving everyday mysteries. What's up with the classroom you can't enter? What about the mysterious book that's always checked out of the library? These puzzles and more—including an incident from 33 years ago involving a female club member's uncle—await in Yonezawa's tale.

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Dead Poet Society

My favourite film: Dead Poets Society | Film | guardian.co.uk

There are some films that, if you watch them for the first time at the right age, have the capacity to inspire and embolden you: Dead Poets Society is one such film. It is not a film that it is cool to admit loving. It is uncynical, idealistic and hopeful – not qualities one necessarily associates with film snobs, but what it lacks in critical kudos it has recouped in audience appreciation. It has been voted the greatest school film and it is often cited by viewers as one of the most inspirational films of all time. It certainly inspired me at a time when I most needed it.

Michael W. Klein, Something for Nothing. MIT.

Something for Nothing

Small World. Blue Angel. Wonder Boys. Straight Man. It makes intuitive sense that many academic novels focus on professors of English or other humanities disciplines – “write what you know,” as the saying goes. But the upshot of all those writers writing about writers is that there are a lot fewer writers writing about, say, scientists. Or mathematicians. Or economists.To Michael W. Klein, this dearth looked like an opportunity.

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