Literature
Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
Introducing this powerful female voice to the English-speaking world
Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to the Islands
Not Your Typical Travelogue
Me Against the World by Kazufumi Shiraishi
“Is this book a novel trying to do philosophy or is it philosophy masquerading as a novel?”
Quit Your Band!
Despite the overwhelming odds, the underground scene perseveres
(English) Booker Prizes
Where the English-reading expat goes for books
100 Views of Tokyo
Not just your run-of-the-mill views, these illustrations are intimate, surprising, and occasionally fantastic
5 Ways to Get Lit
By lit, we mean literature
Drawing Travels
Christine Mari Inzer illustrates her Japan experience