Haruki Murakami’s return from a six-year hiatus sees a return to the familiar, but still shines with its emotional depth and ...

Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, its English translation published last November, plunges the reader into a kind of metaphysical vertigo that never reaches a concluding synthesis.

In an article for Tufts Now, Hirata discusses how Murakami’s novels provide a solace for aging. “I think Haruki has the sense that we exist as a fragment of something, and we are much more ...

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 ...

Haruki Murakami’s new novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, features an imaginary world that is both intricate and baffling: A parallel universe contains a walled city, which contains a ...

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 ...

The year of literature in translation. Starting from comfort reads to kicking-my-feet-giggling romance to stimulating memoirs, there is a little bit for everyone from every ...

Their romance, depicted in the opening section of Haruki Murakami’s 15th novel, is chaste and idyllic. It even has the quality of a fable: “At that time neither you nor I had names.

Haruki Murakami is a household name among literary enthusiasts, but whether you’ve read any of his collection of novels, ...