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Who’s Who in Hell

by Robert Chalmers

“Thoroughly engaging, delightful and very funny. . . . [Who’s Who in Hell] is a coming-of-age story set in a post-Thatcherite world. . . . A love story that avoids…

Grove at Home: April 11—17

…keeping with tradition, Ōe delivered a Nobel Lecture a few months later, entitled “Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself.” After a discussion of how he survived the war as a boy…

Grove at Home: March 23-27

…sentiment. If you haven’t read it, read it. “But it’s too simple to blame Trump for what is happening. In the 1980s, officials from both parties cast Japan as the…

Grove at Home: November 22-28

…unsuccessful coup that aimed to overturn Japan’s 1947 constitution. In this stunning interview, Mishima shares his opinions on various aspects of Japanese culture. “Economic prosperity… gives a big, huge spiritual…

Grove at Home: October 4—10

…writes her books, and much more. “Until recently, Sayaka Murata, who won Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa prize, worked in a convenience store. She had toiled in them…

Grove at Home: July 19—25

…name reflects her love of banana flowers — is today an admired writer with a global readership, and something of an unofficial spokesperson for a generation born in 1960s Japan….

Grove at Home: July 5—11

…Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, and European languages, Suzuki became legendary as perhaps the key figure in introducing European and American audiences to centuries of thought in the Zen and Shin Buddhist…

Celebrate Women in Translation Month with Grove Atlantic

…Murata / Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child. Working in a convenience store, she finds a predictable world mandated by…

Convenience Store Woman Captivates the New Yorker, NPR’s Fresh Air, the New York Times, and more

In Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata has written a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan, taking a sharp and timely look at the pressure to conform. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori,…

Books to Read on Earth Day

…kind, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth…