ever is coming to Washington. Half a year after its theatrical release in Japan,
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train will tour American theaters. Yes! Movie theaters. We can go to those now. The movie is based on
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the wildly popular anime and manga series that follows Tanjiro Kamado, a teen who turned to demon-slaying after a demon killed his entire family and turned his sister, Nezuko, into a demon.
In season one, Tanjiro and a pacified Nezuko comb Japan looking for a way to turn Nezuko human again, fighting a lot of demons along the way. The movie picks up where season 1 left off and acts as a canonical bridge between season 1 and the soon-to-be-released season 2. During just its opening weekend in Japan last year,
In
The Book of Difficult Fruit, author Kate Lebo regularly references the Doctrine of Signatures, ancient theory found in multiple cultures that one can glean the medicinal properties of plants by the part of the body they resemble. God made it easy for us, the theory goes, and made flowers that look like eyes to treat eye infections, plants with red extracts for the blood, and womb-shaped fruit for birth. It’s pseudoscience of the highest order, but the point is not whether it works, but what it means that this logic held sway for so long. It’s not that fruit cures liver disease. It’s that fruit is so integral to our lives that we obviously give it meaning.
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Escape into 34 books this April
April showers bring May flowers. Well, this April is showering us with an abundance of verdant and colorful books, all delighting the senses like an unexpected flower patch.
Novels translated from Italian and German, memoirs about murder and massacres, hilarious essay collections, poignant short stories and many food-themed tomes combine to give us a rainbow collection of fantastic literary fun.
If only the rain would stop.
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April 6 The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
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t s a testament to Kate Lebo s curiosity, knowledge and sheer writing chops that she can spend a chapter describing something as tasting like peaches laced with onions and garbage and smelling a little like turpentine and you ll want to merrily try some for yourself laughing all the way. Of course, you probably won t get the 38-year-old Lebo to join for another round of the spikey fruit called a durian, grown primarily in Southeast Asia and only found through some digging through Spokane s Asian grocery stores. The author of
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes), arriving in stores April 6, readily admits she threw out most of hers, having tried just five bites before she started to feel ill. Some people
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