Contributor Joe Marczynski

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Long Read

Akira and the traumatic spectre of nuclear war

by Joe Marczynski

Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s iconic anime mirrors the atrocities witnessed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago.

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