Murakami Haruki is an important figure in contemporary Japanese letters for his extensive translations from American fiction, and the enormous popularity of his own fiction has drawn attention to his ...
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In the following essay, Loughman analyzes the characterization, particularly of the narrators, in Murakami's stories.
The opening scene of Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel Kokoro shows Sen...
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Strecher is an assistant professor of Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Montana. In the following essay, he discusses Murakami's narrative strategies and styles in...
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In the following review, Sage relates the common themes of South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to Murakami's general concern with defining a postmodern Japanese ...
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AFTER DARKBy Haruki Murakami Alfred A. Knopf, 191 pages, $22.95
Haruki Murakami works wonders with daytime. In the Japanese novelist’s very best books—Dance Dance Dance (1988) and The W...
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Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never fla...
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Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never fla...
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Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Alfred A. Knopf, 436 pages, $25.95.This is the way these things happen, don't ask why. Nakata has a mind that...
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With No Country For Old Men's cinematic debut it was perhaps inevitable that bookstores would see a surge of popular interest in the already-popular work of Cormac McCarthy. And in the East Villag...
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gasp) socialize with their fellow New Yorkers. These hipsters tend to congregate in the southwest corner of the pool courtyard, isolating themselves from the splashing local families. They read tr...
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There may be a recession in the publishing industry, but a newly
translated edition of the Dostoyevsky masterpiece ''The Brothers
Karamazov,'' published by Kobunsha Co., flew off shelves at
...
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TOKYO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - In Japanese novelist Miyuki
Miyabe's Tokyo, the moon hangs low over dark rivers, spiralling
debt leads to murder, and a young woman roams the streets
setting criminals af...
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Judge a Neighborhood By Its Bookstores! St. Mark's Bookshop Best-Seller List Heavy on Cormac, Comics
Haruki Murakami
Critical Essay by Celeste Loughman
