P HILIP ROTH never really left New Jersey. Saul Bellow could not keep his characters out of Chicago. And Haruki Murakami’s ...

The Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York is filled with tote bag-sporting, literature-loving Millennials sipping on ...

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 ...

New novel The City and its Uncertain Walls gives its two narrators different words for “I” in Japanese – a nuance that is difficult to translate to English.

What I’m about to say feels heretical, but here goes: the power, the grace, the genius of Haruki Murakami has waned. Murakami’s novels ...

Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance. "It feels kind ...

Widely acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami has received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Waseda University. A ceremony was held on Dec. 17 at which Murakami said receiving the honorary ...

Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance. "It feels kind ...

Murakami’s interviews exude an unpretentious honesty. When asked about criticisms of his work, he told The Guardian, “My books have been criticized so much over the years I don’t pay much ...

Shortly before the release of A Wild Sheep Chase, the gleefully madcap debut that shot him to instant stardom, Haruki Murakami published a novella in a Japanese literary magazine. It went mostly ...