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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Books teach us to be free from prejudice, to accept our own and the follies of others, to be brave in the face of challenges ...

In the afterword to his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a “limited pallet of motifs” to tell a ...

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 ...

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 ...