Essays:

The Performance of Truth: Bonaparta’s Artifice

Questions about the fault lines running through Bonaparta’s shattered identities: his mixed nationality, the myths he spun around family, and his messy dance with gender and sexuality. All asked through the women—each stripped of her humanity to serve the artifice.

Not directly Nabokovian, but the influence runs deep beneath the surface.

Rabbit Nabokov, Ruhenheim’s Konrad and Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”

Solving the Rabbit Nabokov puzzle: if you’ve ever wondered why the hell I’m connecting Nabokov and Urasawa, this is where it starts clicking.

Creative writing:

the pale life of the inkster (an unfinished inkvitation)

A manga script told in precise 100-word drabbles, spiraling through shifting selves and disintegrating realities.

for the times, they’re a-changin’

An anomaly in Tenma’s brain gives him extraordinary healing abilities. Bonaparta wants to shape them.

A fanfic of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, with a few other literary ghosts hidden inside.

the princedom by the broken homeland (his Anneliese)

It’s just him and her in the whole world.

This fic is in dialogue with my The Performance of Truth: Bonaparta’s Artifice.