Your Summer Reading List

Recommendations from Tokyo's literary scene

Breasts, Eggs and Existential Feminism

Mieko Kawakami’s intimate portrait of womanhood in 'Breasts and Eggs'

Yoshitomo Nara: Beyond the Big-Headed Girls

Yeewan Koon's new book traces Yoshitomo Nara's diverse career

The American Who Brought Ghibli to the World

An interview with Steve Alpert, author of 'Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man'

Questioning Normalcy in the Age of the Pandemic

'Convenience Store Woman' author Sayaka Murata on breaking norms

Art/Cult and Commerce: Japanese Cinema Since 2000

A review of American film critic Mark Schilling's new book

The Titanic Literary Accomplishment of Yoko Ogawa

Power and metaphor in 'The Memory Police'

Five (Translated) Japanese Novels to Read in 2020

And almost all of them are written by women

Mind the Gap

The ongoing battle to translate Japan's leading literary women

‘The Wilds of Shikoku’ by Peter Orosz

A psychogeographical masterpiece on Japan's wilderness

What’s Up With Bad Sex in Murakami?

Pleasure and prose in 'Killing Commendatore' and other novels

After a Forty Year Career, the Architect Becomes a Philosopher

A review of Edward Suzuki's memoir: GOoD Design Philosophy