Today’s letter is an investigation of literary cats rubbing up against myth. I promise I am not taking you to Narnia or into the fetid recesses of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songbook, but we are going to ...

Haruki Murakami’s novels, essays and stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into fifty languages. Now for the first time, his best-loved stories are available in manga form ...

Haruki Murakami is a household name among literary enthusiasts, but whether you’ve read any of his collection of novels, essays, short stories, or not, you likely have heard of his work. Being ...

As part of his life’s work in making F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books more accessible to Japanese readers, novelist Haruki Murakami has translated and released Fitzgerald’s final novel ...

Acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a special radio show by playing a selection of his favorite antiwar songs to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 73-year-old author of “Kafka ...

By Elisabeth Egan Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer. Can Her Daughter’s Wedding, and a Cat, Revive Her Own Marriage? In Anne Tyler’s new novel, a socially inept ...

The 7th Campus Piano Event, organized by the Faculty of Political Science and Economics and sponsored by the Waseda Society of Political Science and Economics, took place on 18 December at the Orange ...

On December 17, 2024, Waseda University President Aiji Tanaka presented an honorary doctorate to alumnus and author Haruki Murakami. The presentation ceremony took place at Okuma Auditorium and was ...

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Interest in Japanese authors is nothing new – Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto have been cult writers here since the ... Publishers of novels like Before the Coffee Gets Cold will sometimes put ...

Seriously, a super-depressed and pessimistic Spider-Man is pretty new territory for Marvel's original Webslinger, and I need ...