Domi's decision has unforeseen consequences. Read the next chapter of The Case Study of Vanitas at the same time as Japan!

In the aftermath of the previous day's storm, the survivors regroup and begin to pick up the pieces. Read the next chapter of The Case Study of Vanitas the same day as Japan!

The Beast of Gévaudan is put to rest once and for all as Chloé makes peace with her truest desire—but Vanitas’s troubles continue as both he and Jeanne are struck with certain... ailments of the heart! There’s no time for him to dwell on this rather unwelcome development, though, as Domi is swept away in the machinations of a phantom from his past...

Fans rejoice! Jun Mochizuki, acclaimed creator of PandoraHearts, returns with the first installment of her latest epic adventure tale, The Case Study of Vanitas! In a late 19th century Paris plagued by vampires...who is Vanitas, and what secrets does he hold? Read the first chapter while the ink is still wet!

Jun Mochizuki, acclaimed creator of PandoraHearts, continues her epic adventure tale, The Case Study of Vanitas! Noe and Vanitas's mission to prove Count Orlok wrong has been rudely interrupted by a surprise showdown with a formidable foe! He may claim to have some tricks up his sleeve, but will Vanitas's bluster turn out to be all for show against a legendary warrior maiden?! Read the fourth installment of Jun Mochizuki's latest epic adventure tale, The Case Study of Vanitas, the same day as Japan!

Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre’s historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.