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Philip K. Dick wrote forty-four novels and over one hundred short stories, lived in near-constant poverty, was addicted to amphetamines, believed at various points that he was receiving transmissions...
Read article →Billie Holiday (1915-1959), born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer considered one of the greatest vocalists of all time. She is known for her distinctive phrasing, emotional delivery, and so...
Read article →Billie Holiday did not sing songs. She sang confessions. Every note she held carried the weight of a woman who was born Eleanora Fagan in a Baltimore whorehouse, raped at ten, arrested for prostitutio...
Read article →H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. He is best known for creating the Cthulhu Mythos — a shared fictional universe of cosmic entities, forbidden...
Read article →H.P. Lovecraft was afraid of the ocean, afraid of cold temperatures, afraid of non-English cultures, afraid of modern architecture, afraid of fish, and afraid of the dark. He channeled these fears — a...
Read article →Achilles is the central character of Homer's Iliad, the foundational text of Western literature composed in approximately the 8th century BCE. He is the greatest warrior of the Greek forces in the Tro...
Read article →Achilles knew he was going to die at Troy. His mother Thetis told him: stay home and live a long, peaceful life that no one will remember, or go to war and die young in a blaze of glory that will echo...
Read article →Persephone is the Greek goddess of spring and the queen of the Underworld. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (goddess of the harvest). In the central myth, she is abducted by Hades, god of the U...
Read article →Persephone is the queen of the Underworld and the goddess of spring. She is both at once. This is not a contradiction — it is the point. She was the daughter of Demeter, the harvest goddess, and she w...
Read article →Bruce Lee (1940-1973) was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher. He is widely considered the most influential martial artist in history and a cultural icon of the 20th c...
Read article →Bruce Lee made five films, lived thirty-two years, and became the most influential martial artist in human history. He founded a martial art. He changed how Hollywood depicted Asian men. He performed...
Read article →Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between patient and therapist. His central cont...
Read article →Sigmund Freud was wrong about most things. The Oedipus complex, penis envy, the death drive — modern psychology has discarded or drastically revised the majority of his specific theories. And yet. He...
Read article →Hiei is one of the four main characters of Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi. He is a fire demon born to the Koorime (ice maidens), a race of all-female demons who reproduce asexually. Because he was...
Read article →Hiei is a fire demon who was thrown off a floating island as a baby because he was born male in a race of ice maidens. He was found, raised by bandits, and became one of the most feared fighters in De...
Read article →Kurama (human name Shuichi Minamino) is one of the four main characters of Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi. He is a thousand-year-old fox demon (Yoko Kurama) who reincarnated into a human body afte...
Read article →Kurama is a thousand-year-old fox demon who reincarnated into a human body to heal from a mortal wound. He intended to wait, recover his strength, and return to Demon World. Then his human mother got...
Read article →Minato Namikaze is the Fourth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village in Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. Known as the Yellow Flash of Konoha for his speed, he is Naruto Uzumaki's father and one of the most pow...
Read article →Minato Namikaze — the Fourth Hokage, the Yellow Flash of Konoha — is the fastest ninja who ever lived. He could teleport across a battlefield in the time it takes a kunai to rotate. He ended the Third...
Read article →Yusuke Urameshi is the protagonist of Yu Yu Hakusho (Ghost Files), a manga and anime by Yoshihiro Togashi (creator of Hunter x Hunter). Serialized from 1990 to 1994, the series follows Yusuke, a 14-ye...
Read article →Yusuke Urameshi is a fourteen-year-old delinquent who skips school, gets into fights, and is universally considered a waste of space by everyone in his life. Then he jumps in front of a car to save a...
Read article →Sesshomaru is InuYasha's older half-brother and a major character in InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi. He is a full-blooded dog demon (yokai) of immense power who initially despises humans and his half-de...
Read article →Sesshomaru is InuYasha's older half-brother, a full-blooded dog demon of extraordinary power, and he despises humans. He considers his father's love for a human woman — InuYasha's mother — a disgrace....
Read article →Lupin III (also written as Lupin the Third) is the protagonist of the manga and anime franchise created by Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Kato), first published in 1967. He is the fictional grandson of Arsene...
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