If you are a foreign writer in Japan and hope to get published, your best bet is to go the nonfiction route. That was the ...

Critical darlings, prize nominees, and book-club favorites galore—these are the literary fiction novels we loved most in 2024 ...

Three books won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize in 2024 ... There were three winners of the Naoki Prize, awarded for popular fiction, generally to more established writers than the Akutagawa Prize.

This book was absolutely deserving of its status as an NBA fiction finalist. Lauren Groff called Martyr! “the best novel you’ll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement ...

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Japan’s amazing history is only matched by the beautiful historical fictional works that poignantly present that history. This course explores Japan’s past through historical fiction. In particular, ...

In her novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Hiromi Kawakami has ludic fun with clones and hovercraft – but the writing could ...

Japanese and Korean cosy fantasy, BookTok-boosted romance and rediscovered classics dominate the list of future bestsellers.

DM: What is your fiction holiday read recommendation and why? JG: I have two: Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, By Any Other Name, ...

PEOPLE staffers have rounded up some of our favorite books of the decade so far, in honor of PEOPLE's 50th anniversary — see ...