This is the thread for discussing the manga series Bleach by Tite Kubo. SPOILERS.As several people here are fans of this series it seems appropriate to continue the conversations we've been having ...

I'm writing sci-fi at the moment and so I'm of course reading nothing but fantasy books, I really enjoyed the Song of Ice and Fire series and since ripping through it have ...

Hello, Media category. I've been reading children's books again - to actual children, mind - and keep getting that creeping feeling that they mean more than they're saying. I thought maybe someone ...

I'm presently attempting to write a story where the protagonist is a magician and where magical combat is a story driver. I say "attempting" not only because I'm still new to the ...

Just in case we do ever get round to some meaty Bible study threads, I thought some folks (Evan, grant, I'm looking at you two, you can't hide) might appreciate this truly ...

Fortcoming publication:   Liz Greene: Magi and Maggidim: The Kabbalah in British Occultism 1860-1940. "Using primary sources Greene challenges the notion that western occult Kabbalah is a reinvention of ancient sources, and argues that Jewish ...

Came across this the other day, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature - was disappointed that the index only had one reference to Rakatoskr the 'cosmic squirrel', but hey...otherwise it looked v ...

I've just finished reading George "Rumpelstiltskin Rastafari" Martin's "A feast for crows", and want to talk about the books and their themes with other people who have read them. I haven't read ...

I just read this review in the New York Times, written by Harold Bloom (a kabbalist), about a book by Marina Warner (whom Bloom describes as a "veteran magus") about the Thousand and ...

I haven't been reading much fiction lately and came across this by chance, but can wholeheartedly recommend it: Alejo Carpentier's El Reino de este Mundo, translated as  The Kingdom of this World Quite short in length, ...