Yoshimi Kawaguchi's essay Coexisting with Affliction: On Simone Weil uses Weil's thought on affliction to reconsider violence, discrimination, and the ethics of literary criticism. It was later collected in Coexisting with Affliction: Soulful Literary Criticism.

An essay that asks what ethical language can be when it confronts affliction through Weil's thought.

Takayoshi Miyazawa's essay Toward a New Discourse on Method: On Kenzaburo Oe was an honorable mention for the Gunzo Newcomer Critics Award. First published in the December 2016 issue of Gunzo, it reconsiders the very method of reading Oe, and no book publication has been confirmed.

An essay that attempts to rebuild the method of reading Kenzaburo Oe from the starting point of criticism.