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 ...

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.

With the release of "The City and its Uncertain Walls," writer Nimarta Narang explores her conflicted feelings about the ...

Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday (December 17, 2024) that he was far from a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...