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Faye Valentine’s Debts Made Her—As Mine Made Me

The ‘Bebop’ femme fatale’s devil-may-care attitude is the natural conclusion to resignation to a debt-filled future. I can relate.

"There are things worth living for." The key to Hayao Miyazaki’s classic ‘Princess Mononoke’ is in one quote.

Maternal, idealistic, insecure, stubborn, short-tempered. Katara is emotion—her trauma, her power. Just like me.

On “Marge vs. the Monorail” and the enduring timelessness of ‘The Simpsons’

Jabberjawin' with the Vulture writer.

A bone to pick with the great librarians of cinema.

From exclusive interviews to searing personal essays.

And other things you don’t know about the popular scientist and his cartoon career.

“Belonging,” Faye tells Ed, “is the very best thing there is.” It’s also, as many anime fans know all too well, one of the hardest.