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ex-section3 Oct 14, 2026

Satoshi Kon, remembered

Satoshi Kon's influence on American filmmakers such as Darren Aronofsky is hard to miss, yet the anime auteur didn't live to see Hollywood honor him. Such recognition came in 2020 via the Winsor McCay Award, 10 years after he died, but what came before ...

ex-section3 Oct 1, 2026

Oct. 2, International Day of Nonviolence

Would Gandhi have made sense of Zen Buddhism, with its cryptic sayings not unlike his own? The tradition’s “sword of life” might well have put him off, yet it could be argued that something of Zen ran through him all the same. (Michael Hoffman, ...