‘The Hole’ by Hiroko Oyamada
David Boyd translates Oyamada’s surreal novel of transformation and isolation
David Boyd translates Oyamada’s surreal novel of transformation and isolation
Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation
Mieko Kawakami’s intimate portrait of womanhood in ‘Breasts and Eggs’
‘Convenience Store Woman’ author Sayaka Murata on breaking norms
Power and metaphor in ‘The Memory Police’
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The best contemporary female authors with English translated novels